Massacre in Tehran? – UPDATES

June 24, 2009 By

Is today Tehran’s Tiananmen Square? People being thrown off of bridges, being slain in the streets. Beating old men in the streets. “Would you help us, could you help us?” None of this is easy to watch, but we mustn’t not look. CNN – a chilling, heartbreaking phone call from a woman in Tehran. “they [...]

Filed Under: Bush Good, Iran Uprising

Our freezing summer makes me gripe

June 18, 2009 By

It’s freezing here; we can’t swim, can’t have the windows open. Every day is cold. It just convinces me more than ever that solar flares (or the lack of them) have more to do with the ever-changing climate of planet earth. And more resentful of policies, programs and restrictions put in our way, in service [...]

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Condi Rice appointee kept Twitter going…

June 17, 2009 By

Very interesting story out of media bistro. When BayNewser heard that someone from the State Department had called Twitter to ask them to delay maintenance to allow Iranians to continue tweeting, we pictured some fusty old guy at Foggy Bottom in a rumpled Brooks Brothers suit and wayward spectacles. Imagine our surprise, then, when we [...]

Filed Under: Alternative Media, American Genius, Bush Good, Crisis & Opportunity, Iran Uprising, Our Hillary!

Twittering Liberty…and Hope – UPDATED

June 16, 2009 By

Emily Dickinson wrote: Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune–without the words And never stops at all… How appropriate then, that the communications tool most responsible for keeping hope alive in shattered Iran is “a thing” called “Twitter,” and that the 140-character dispatches being sent and received [...]

Filed Under: Alternative Media, Barack Obama, Crisis & Opportunity, Culture of Life/Death, Free Speech?, Iran Uprising, Liturgy of the Hours, Twitter