Iran
October 9, 2009
- We, the harmonica players of the world, have worked long and hard to bring our reputation up out of the gutter and onto the sidewalk where it belongs. Historically we have not been granted our place in the orchestra of life; people would not hire us for any but the most menial tasks; the police pulled us over for simply playing our instrument while driving. (That is NOT a euphemism). Many of the ...
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September 25, 2009
- So, there's a new super Viagra coming out, that has proven to be effective in some large percentage of mice. It's a rub-on cream.To tell you the truth, I am just too damned lazy to make a joke about this while I know each and every one of you already has one swirling around in your demented little heads, so go ahead, insert joke here.Sometimes, life just tosses you a meatball so perfect you don't ...
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September 11, 2009
- Heather was in a crowd of other Western travelers, some of them from the Magic Bus ride from Istanbul. They'd been gathered together by the Afghani army and were now being ordered on to buses. She tried to head back to the center of the city towards Danny, but armed Afghani soldiers hampered her effort. She saw the older couple who sang for them in the Iranian desert, fearful and running to get ...
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August 9, 2009
- A unique strain of viral disease killed Iranian protesters who were being held in Kahrizak, a prison a few miles south of Tehran-- at least, according to General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, the country's top police official. Symptoms of the previously unknown disease included broken bones, severe bruising and other trauma not usually associated with viruses.While admitting that "some ...
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August 3, 2009
- Somewhere, there’s a photo of me with Corazon Aquino, the former president of the Philippines who will be buried on Wednesday. I thought of her today as her flag-draped coffin was carried along EDSA in Manila. This is the very street where the People Power Revolution was born. Today, this street turned into a sea of yellow with ribbons, flags and balloons--as it had back in the days ...
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July 22, 2009
- One floor below our flat in Mumbai, an Iranian revolution was taking place. As I flashback to those years, I clearly recall the face of the woman. She was plump and beautiful, a Madhubala (famous Indian actress known for her looks) on steroids. I do not remember her name, but I distinctly recall that she seemed to be forever in the balcony. She lived with her parents and brother, Mohammed, a ...
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June 25, 2009
- Last night my brother was watching the 6pm broadcast of the CBC (Canadian Broadcast Company) news with his 12 year old son. They showed one of the videos currently sweeping through YouTube that captures the last gruesome moments of life of Neda Agha-Soltan, shot dead by persons unknown while walking the fringes of the protests against Iranian’s repressive pseudo democracy. My brother, who had ...
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June 23, 2009
- Want to take this time to congratulate the Iranian people for upgrading to a participatory government where they feel empowered enough to take to the streets to complain. For those of you who have been too busy digging under bushes for returnable bottle deposits, there is major rioting going on in the country formerly known as Persia, due to their sneaking suspicion of rampant voter fraud. ...
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June 21, 2009
- This dispatch (below) was found on Twitter this morning under the search term "Tehran". It was just a couple of entries down and appeared after an alert to a link that read "Iranian authorities have told the BBC Tehran correspondent to leave the country within 24 hours #iranelection http://tinyurl.com/lfe4t7"!This is the detailed account one would find if one followed the the ...
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June 20, 2009
- Dear Reader,I awoke this morning to dreadful news on two fronts: One, the city of Spokane contends that the death of a schizophrenic man hog-tied by police -- a well known local who was holding only a plastic pop bottle at the time, and whose last words were, "All I wanted was a Snickers" -- the death of Otto Zehm was his fault. As a result, I'm going to join a protest next week in ...
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