Fight the Power!

Tiananmen Square. Kent State. Tehran U. When the people stand en masse against those in power, and risk their lives doing so, they forever change the world.

The pro-democracy protesters in Iran are changing the world right before our eyes. This will go down in history as something more important than Obama's election. Are you watching?

This is what fighting for democracy looks like

Iranians show the world how to respond to stolen elections. America has so much to learn!

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Stop the Slaughter of Taiji Dolphins!

For such an advanced culture, it is astonishing that some Japanese can be so barbaric and disgustingly cruel. The Cove, a new film that has been hailed as part Flipper, part The Bourne Identity, exposes a sickening and cruel - and illegal business of Japanese fisherman slaughtering wild dolphins in a secret cove in Taiji.

In Japan, fishermen round up and slaughter hundreds and even thousands of dolphins and other small whales each year.

In the small fishing village of Taiji, entire schools of dolphins are driven into a hidden cove after a prolonged chase. Once trapped inside the cove, the fishermen kill the dolphins, slashing their throats with knives or stabbing them with spears. The water turns red with their blood, and the air fills with their screams.

This brutal massacre — the largest scale dolphin kill in the world — goes on for six months of every year. Even more scandalous, members of the international dolphin display industry take advantage of the dolphin slaughter to obtain some few, show-quality dolphins for use in captive dolphin shows and dolphin swim programs.

Learn more about this shame on Japan, and watch the trailer for the compelling movie here. Then take action to stop this barbarism!

State Department asks Twitter to postpone maintenance

Wow. This is pretty huge!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had contacted the social networking service Twitter to urge it to delay a planned upgrade that would have cut daytime service to Iranians who are disputing their election.

Live_tweeting the revolution

It's getting violent and deadly in Iran, but this revolution looks very real.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/livetweeting-the-revolution.html#more

In Tehran

A student protester in Tehran helps an Iranian riot cop who was beaten by other protesters.

Meanwhile, other riot cops, conservative Islamic militias, and Arab thugs are mercilessly beating and killing protesters all over Iran.

Iranian students protesters beaten

some to death.

Animal Farm Friday (on Moday) - Oh Hi!

I can haz catnip?

A celebration of altered states (now legalize it!).

Why is the MSM so quiet on Iran?

Apart from Obama's victory, this is the biggest story in the world right now, but the western media is strangely quiet on this.

Seriously, even some ayatollahs and election monitors are calling Ahmadinejad's win a fraud.

The people of Iran need to know they have our support and compassion
in their resistance against the mullahs and theocracy.

Andrew Sullivan is all over this, and surprisingly so is Hugh Hewitt from Fox.

Shep

Vroom-a-zoom-zoom

The Green Grand Prix - electric bikes tearing up the Isle of Man!

The Public Option

There's a debate going on over a "public option" in our health care reform.

In response to Paul Krugman, economist Greg Mankiw's writes:

The bottom line: If the goal is honest competition in the provision of health insurance, the public option cannot do much good but can potentially do much harm.

"Honest competition in the provision of health insurance" absolutely should NOT be the goal. The primary goal should be the elimination of for-profit health insurance. So long as it is in the interest of the insurance companies to make a profit, patients will always be de facto on the losing side of the equation.

We should not even be debating a "public option". That health insurance is for profit to begin with is immoral. Capitalists think health care is a privilege, not a right. But a society can only be as sustainably successful as its populace remains vibrant and healthy. Rising tides lift all boats, except those with holes.

More on this later.

The Most Hatefull Person in America...

... drives this truck. I'm surprised it's not a Texas plate.

A Butter Way?

How did I miss this?

Wow. I missed this stunning video from almost a year ago. And from my own company.


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Animal Farm Friday II - Who Pooped?

Rachel Maddow got a kick out of this: