Archive - Aug 29, 2010

طلسم شکسته شد در یونان

بیانیه پیروزی از جانب انجمن پناهندگان سیاسی ایرانی در یونان >>>

HISTORY OF IDEAS: Constitutional Government In Locke's Second Treatise (Yale University)

John Locke had a profound influence on Britain's Glorious Revolution but also on Thomas Jefferson and thus deemed an honorary founding father of the United States. Yale Prof. Steven Smith discusses Locke's life and works. >>>

Boasting: What does it Mean?

Why do we feel we need to tell others about our wealth, title, position, etc? >>>

What would Cyrus do?

A Thai woman boarding a flight at Bangkok's airport is caught with a sedated tiger cub in her luggage. Stuffed in a bag with, er, cuddly tiger toys, this tiger was revealed by the X-ray machine to have a beating heart. The woman’s identity is not being revealed as police quiz her about her final destination which, of course, had to be Iran, the most bonkers country on earth. Why was a 31-year-old Thai woman smuggling a tiger into Iran?>>>

Sama’ (The Audition-1)

The desert Jinn were a nuisance. The big one I had just shooed was sulkily lumbering away over the horizon into the sun. Now a tiny inquisitive one scurried up the rocks to watch me tune my zehtar. Like a dog begging at the table, it waited attentively eager to gulp any discarded scraps of tone. Soon I felt two others sneak up to join it. Their polite stealth made no difference. Visible or not, their nosey presence distracted me from my daily practice>>>

در نشئه ی اینهمه غروب

می دیدم
چشمه سار، اقاقیای سرمست
کوچه های همهمه، شفاف، قرمز
بر روی پرهای بی شِکِوه
شُکوه شاخک ها
و تصویر زنی
بر برکه – آغشته به حس
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Why there are a lot of confusion and hate, disunity in the world.

  Only if we are united we can grow, in other way we will be the loser and cruel people will gain. >>>