Iran's chief prosecutor says Sakineh Ashtiani could still face stoning for adultery. This contradicts a report that the stoning had been canceled, and President Ahmadinejad's statement that the sentence "was made up."
ā¢ And to make it even better, his tagline is "What? I like variety," which is an odd choice for the man notorious for sticking to his "type." Related: Hugh is finally getting a divorce. ā¢ The Australian government has announced plans to widen protection for women fleeing their home countries out of fear for possibleā¦
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is dismissing the violent protests that broke out as a result of the recent presidential results as a product of high emotion, the same type of sentiments, he says, that happen after "a football match."
Protests over the re-election of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have turned violent, as supporters of Mir Hossein Moussavi feel that the results have been fixed by the government and that their voices are not being heard.
The New York Times is reporting that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been re-elected by the Iranian people, what Iran's government is calling "a landslide." Ahmadinejad's opponent, Mir Hussein Moussavi, claims the results are false.
On Sunday, George Will wrote a column arguing that Hillary's loss is its own proof that sexism wasn't the reason she lost. Hmmm, illogical-sounding! And yet compelling nonetheless. Because thanks to TNR I had just read a collection of thirty-something thoughts culled from more than a dozen anonymous emails fromā¦
We spent this past weekend with two D.C. friends: one who works for a male Democratic senator, one who works for a female Republican senator. And so naturally the topic of weekend conversation veered immediately to the pressing issues preventing the two sides of the aisle from uniting and restoring the country toā¦
Oh Praise The Allah, never have we been so proud for starting a meme. Here Saturday Night Live's Andy Samberg, picking up on the inchoate Ajmadineffection out there in Generation TMZ, pays homage to his mancrush on the meccasexual in a slowjam. It's funny. Not quite early Obamagirl funny, but worthwhile becauseā¦
Welcome back to "That's So Jane's", a really bad pun we use both as an homage to Jane/Jane's Defence Weekly magazines and as an excuse to blog about something other than celebrities and drinking and fucking and all our stupid little affluent society problems. There's a whole Third World out there! And really, don'tā¦
So the totes hot Jew-hating nukeloving nutso president of Iran spoke at Columbia yesterday, and in the morning's papers there were a few camps of reaction: the ha ha ha, what a deluded tool camp, the EVIL MADMAN LIVESTRONG NEVER FORGET camp, and the "when he wasn't denying the existence of gays or babbling on aboutā¦
