[SCENE: The United States of America, every New Year’s Eve since 2016.]PERSON #1: “Well, that was an awful year. Good riddance.”PERSON #2: “Yeah. I sure hope the new year is better.” [Clock strikes midnight.]THE NEW YEAR: “Hold my beer.” Because I’m not on Twitter, I’m not automatically creating a sort of personal record for posterity of the past week’s events… Read more »
Jeffrey Goldberg, writing the cover story of next month’s Atlantic, newly online today, gives us something new — well, not new, but something newly revived — to #PANIC!!!! about: Israel attacking Iran in the near future. Outlining the scenario that he envisions potentially unfolding, Goldberg writes: When the Israelis begin to bomb the uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz, the formerly secret… Read more »
There is some serious unrest happening in Iran right now. Andrew Sullivan is in flood-the-zone mode.
Sounds like President Obama gave somebody a tongue-lashing: White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Wednesday said he had misspoken in calling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iran’s elected leader and that Washington will let the Iranian people decide whether Iran’s election was fair. “Let me correct a little bit of what I said yesterday. I denoted that Mr. Ahmadinejad was the elected leader… Read more »
It sounds like today was a day of horrific violence in Tehran (WARNING: graphic photo on linked page). Excerpt: An Iranian blogger (whose URL I will not publish) live blogging from Baharestan Square in central Tehran today captures but brief glimpses of the unimaginable horror that took place today. Bus loads of protesters were stopped and unloaded from their buses… Read more »
The Boston Globe‘s always exceptional photoblog, The Big Picture, has a typically fantastic post about the Iranian uprising, titled “A troubled week in Iran,” featuring great photo after great photo of the turmoil, all 990 pixels wide. This follows on the heels of three previous posts with photos of the election and subsequent protests. Lots of great stuff. Definitely worth… Read more »