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Michael Jackson's Death Now Influencing Iranian Protesters
New York, 6:56 AM
Sun Dec 6
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06/29/09
MJ was only 112 lbs? That is beyond sickly for someone his height.
Okay I can't read anymore about him for a while. WTF. Did he have anyone around him who wasn't on his payroll?
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"It's remarkable the lengths to which some men will go to mask their homosexuality. On the one hand, I have compassion for Edwards' broken double life; many men who are unwilling or unable to acknowledge their homosexuality often find themselves in some kind of mess. On the other hand, I have greater compassion for his family who were unknowing victims of Edwards' tortured soul. God be with them all and I hope that he, and his family, get some help."
That is a new one to me. Edwards is gay and he was using RH as a beard? Will that be mentioned in Young's book too?
At this point, Elizabeth Edwards needs to take her kids, and go to an island and off the grid. This can't be good for her health or her kids.
06/29/09
John Edwards is gay - why? Because he takes good care of his hair?
Wow.
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Now, of course, that divine mandate has always been supported by an iron hand on the various machines of state controls, whether it be the bureaucracy or state-sanctioned violence (Basij, army, etc), but there have always been people who felt that the '79 revolution was either a betrayal (the left) or wrong-headed (many in the clerical class). Now that the divides have come out into the open, and the government has in fact traded legitimacy for sheer force, in a nation of educated people who are used to a certain measure of democracy, they have (in my opinion) fatally undermined the regime as originally conceived.
Now, what does "death spiral" mean? And how long will it last? These are the real questions. I think that the government set up 30 years ago is doomed -- but that doesn't mean that a secular democracy will be flowering next week. Aside from anything else, as the demonstrators are quick to point out, this is not about abandoning Islam. It's about finding fairness and justice within an Islamic system.
In the end, I think that it's the '79 revolution that isn't over yet. These are tensions that have been there all along; these opponents are working out issues that first came up when they marched together and built a country together 30 years ago. This is, in an odd way, old news.
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I'm going to add the Edwards sex tape to the list of Things I Need Not See Before I Die. Even sadder? I have no doubt that this exists. None.
*throws up quietly in trash can*
06/29/09
And I guarantee that there are more out there watching the Edwards and Sanford stories unfold right now and thinking to themselves "well, I am not going to get caught."
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That's exactly it, isn't it? The sheer hubris. I think the timeline shows Ensign saying about Larry Craig that he "hopefully" would never do anything like that but if he did, he would resign -- just before he started doing something "like that."
(Though, of course, I'm sure that in Ensign's mind, he was not doing anything even remotely "like that," because he wasn't with a man, and he wasn't in a public bathroom. And his stance isn't wide. Or something).
06/29/09
I will say that the one time I cheated (on a boyfriend with whom I was living, manymany years ago), I remember having this almost drugged sense of "this is ok, it's all going to be ok," which I can only chalk up to endorphins or some such -- because it was manifestly NOT ok -- but I have long wondered if this plays a role for a lot of people. You almost enter an altered understanding of reality.
And then, if you've been getting away with it for awhile, or more than once? And you have actual, verifiable power in your hands on a daily basis? That must just really confirm your sense that you are somehow special and reality is not, in fact, real.
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@gangey: That is a good point about the anti-abortion protestors. It is sort of the same thing -- their case was special. They don't have to abide by the same rules ... such flawed thinking!
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