Can't stop the signal...

Found this macro in ontd_political's Iran post-election Live Thread, and just had to share!



Especially apt when coupled with this photoshopped image! ;)

And a couple of quotes from Andrew Sullivan, since I'm here and they tie in with everything else:

"We have entered a wilder world of journalism, one with less control over primary sources and places a greater burden on readers to use their critical faculties instead. However, it is not by its nature a less truthful world. Our understanding and accuracy will only improve the more citizens participate, whether by creating, aggregating, or interpreting the aggregation of the instantaneous raw observations,"
- David Ogles.

A reader writes:
Over the weekend, attempting to get the latest news on the Iran elections aftermath, I tuned into 'The Situation Room' on CNN. Wolf Blitzer began the program with the latest on the David Letterman/Sarah Palin uproar. Meanwhile, last night the Daily Show led off with the story of the Iran elections. They've even had a correspondent actually in Iran the last couple weeks.

The world is a strange place these days.

Can't stop the signal...

Found this macro in ontd_political's Iran post-election Live Thread, and just had to share!



Especially apt when coupled with this photoshopped image! ;)

And a couple of quotes from Andrew Sullivan, since I'm here and they tie in with everything else:

"We have entered a wilder world of journalism, one with less control over primary sources and places a greater burden on readers to use their critical faculties instead. However, it is not by its nature a less truthful world. Our understanding and accuracy will only improve the more citizens participate, whether by creating, aggregating, or interpreting the aggregation of the instantaneous raw observations,"
- David Ogles.

A reader writes:
Over the weekend, attempting to get the latest news on the Iran elections aftermath, I tuned into 'The Situation Room' on CNN. Wolf Blitzer began the program with the latest on the David Letterman/Sarah Palin uproar. Meanwhile, last night the Daily Show led off with the story of the Iran elections. They've even had a correspondent actually in Iran the last couple weeks.

The world is a strange place these days.

I promise to stop spamming now...

Via Sullivan (again) a beautiful and very relevant poem by the great 13th Century Persian poet, Rumi. The imagery is startling:

"A Green-Winged Longing"

This world of two gardens, and both so beautiful.
This world, a street where a funeral is passing.
Let us rise together and leave "this world,"

as water goes bowing down itself to the ocean.
From gardens to the gardener, from grieving
to wedding feast. We tremble like leaves

about to let go. There's no avoiding pain,
or feeling exiled, or the taste of dust.

But also we have a green-winged longing
for the sweetness of the Friend.

These forms are evidence of what
cannot be shown. Here's how it is

to go into that: rain that's been leaking
into the house decides to use the downspout.

The bent bowstring straining at our throats
releases and becomes the arrow!

Mice quivering in fear of the housecat suddenly
change to half-grown lion cubs, afraid of nothing.

So let's begin the journey home,
with love and compassion for guides,
and grace protecting. Let your soul turn

into an empty mirror that passionately wants
to reflect Joseph. Hand him your present.

Now let silence speak, and as that
gift begins, we'll start out.

-- Version by Coleman Barks
(from a translation by John Moyne)

~~~~~~~~~

Also, in case someone hasn't come across it yet, The Big Picture has stunning photos from the last few days.

ETA: Greenwald has an excellent article: The "Bomb Iran" contingent's newfound concern for The Iranian People!

I promise to stop spamming now...

Via Sullivan (again) a beautiful and very relevant poem by the great 13th Century Persian poet, Rumi. The imagery is startling:

"A Green-Winged Longing"

This world of two gardens, and both so beautiful.
This world, a street where a funeral is passing.
Let us rise together and leave "this world,"

as water goes bowing down itself to the ocean.
From gardens to the gardener, from grieving
to wedding feast. We tremble like leaves

about to let go. There's no avoiding pain,
or feeling exiled, or the taste of dust.

But also we have a green-winged longing
for the sweetness of the Friend.

These forms are evidence of what
cannot be shown. Here's how it is

to go into that: rain that's been leaking
into the house decides to use the downspout.

The bent bowstring straining at our throats
releases and becomes the arrow!

Mice quivering in fear of the housecat suddenly
change to half-grown lion cubs, afraid of nothing.

So let's begin the journey home,
with love and compassion for guides,
and grace protecting. Let your soul turn

into an empty mirror that passionately wants
to reflect Joseph. Hand him your present.

Now let silence speak, and as that
gift begins, we'll start out.

-- Version by Coleman Barks
(from a translation by John Moyne)

~~~~~~~~~

Also, in case someone hasn't come across it yet, The Big Picture has stunning photos from the last few days.

ETA: Greenwald has an excellent article: The "Bomb Iran" contingent's newfound concern for The Iranian People!