Date

NUCLEAR

Warped logic

You masturbate in the closet, you beat your wife and Iran had a nuclear weapons program

13-Dec-2007 (22 comments)
of the NIEThe ink is dry on the 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear capabilities. And yet the Bush Administration keeps watering down its message. One official after another has been going around calling Iran still dangerous and still a threat and still deserving of greater sanctions! So, I ask, per the line in David Letterman’s shtick, “NIE: Is this anything?” It is something alright: It is a first rate exercise in obfuscation: perhaps, it is designed to facilitate a military strike on Iran by allowing the elaboration of and attention to other reasons for continued enmity toward or possibly even attacking Iran >>>

MMM

Feel good foods

Christmas is coming… (And its not just the ‘Goose’ that’s going to get fat!)

13-Dec-2007 (21 comments)
Even before the Christmas period falls upon us, we are already recovering from the holiday aftermath of Thanksgiving. Greed has once again, gotten the better of us and some of us are paying the price in the form of fatigue, sluggishness and weight gain. So what on earth are we supposed to do when we haven’t yet reached the ‘Mother’ of all holidays, Christmas? Well, I don’t know about you, but barely a week into December and I’m feeling lethargic, heavier and generally not at my peak. In anticipation of the Christmas season, I have decided to eat sensibly to prevent any needless weight gain even before the Christmas and New Year is upon us. >>>

LIFE

Touched by an Angel

What right do I have to complain about life?

13-Dec-2007 (2 comments)
The pain we are all feeling is real and devastating. It is true that our dear little Lauren is finally free of pain. Her suffering is finally over. How we all wish her life story would not have ended here prematurely, two months short of her 14th birthday. This is so unbelievably unfair. Lauren was denied the chance to fully experience life. Just as she was blossoming as an intelligent, beautiful young lady, her body was viciously attacked for the third time by Cancer, one of the worst enemies of the mankind>>>
Shaer
12-Dec-2007 (7 comments)

"Self Explanatory"

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SCIENCE

Peeling a pomegranate, dehati style

Peeling a pomegranate, dehati style

Photo essay

by Midwesty
12-Dec-2007 (29 comments)

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PEOPLE

War on error

Stories of Muslims in post-9/11 America

12-Dec-2007 (18 comments)
Lounging contentedly on the bed in her apartment some thirty-five stories directly above the FDR, Roxana looks at me standing over her and proclaims, "Interview me," as though she were Julia Roberts promoting her next blockbuster. I know this is going to be difficult. I have known Roxana for over eight years now. We met in college at Wesleyan when she was a senior and I was a freshman, and within days, we were inseparable. She was the only other Iranian girl I had heard of at Wesleyan, and she seemed to know everything and everyone there was to know there. We were both loud,opinionated, sarcastic, and naive.We were also both virgins and agreed that men were useful almost solely for opening unyielding jars of pickles and hooking up electronic equipment>>>

HOSTAGE

Day 52

Christmas in Tehran

12-Dec-2007 (17 comments)
With the Christmas season in full swing and the day rapidly approaching, I thought it might be a good idea to recollect on a Christmas past. The date was December 25, 1979. The location was Tehran, the American embassy, a building on the grounds known as the Mushroom Inn. This was day 52 of the global shift known as the hostage crisis. “Hello, my name is Joseph Subic Jr. I am a Sergeant in the Marine Corp. I would like to begin my statement with the personal. I traveled this country before the embassy takeover. I saw different towns, different villages. I saw a way of life>>>
Faramarz_Fateh
12-Dec-2007 (19 comments)

Keithe Olberman of MSNBC rips a new one for G.W. Bush.

Check out www.truthout............

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Ali Mahin Torabi
12-Dec-2007 (21 comments)
مى خواهم دست بر روى قرآن بگذارم و براى پدر مزدك سوگند ياد كنم كه من قاتل دوست و همكلاسى ام نيستم >>>
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12-Dec-2007
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Davood.Rahni
12-Dec-2007 (16 comments)
Book review>>>
Darius Kadivar
12-Dec-2007
Brad Bird's "Ratatouille," from Disney/Pixar, tied with Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis," for LA CRITICS prize.

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Khonjagar
12-Dec-2007
تا آنشب كه خواب ديدم. خواب آنروزها كه اين ديوار نبود آنروزها كه من ﭙسر بچه ای بودم و توﭖ فوتبال و بچه های كوچه دلخوشی بزرگ زندگی من بودند.>>>

RIGHTS

Dignity and justice for all

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains as relevant today and it was 59 years ago

12-Dec-2007 (3 comments)
December 10 we not only celebrated Human Rights Day, but also the launch of the year long campaign leading to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The theme for 2008, the year long campaign is “Dignity and justice for all of us”. As we reflect today, there are many reasons to celebrate how far human community has come since 1948, in it’s journey of protecting and ensuring fundamental freedoms for each member of human race. The life of the declaration, conceived as an outcome of the soul of a world severely injured by the horrors of the Second World War has been a very dynamic life.>>>

POETRY

12-Dec-2007 (3 comments)

جهان را کند مهر درونٍ سینه بند

چه کوهها وچَرَا چوپان و گوسفند


شکرِ خداتعالی که چشمم نمی رسد

سرِ شانه مار هستند که دِلم راگزند

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