A Short Summary

Yes, because I would love to write a lot more but I don't have a ton of time. Here is your song for today (yes, yours), and you really should listen to the whole thing. It's wonderful:



Ella Fitzgerald - I've Got a Crush On You

Well, what has been going on? The last bit of relevant news I've heard from the Iran situation is that there was a massive rally to mourn the victims of the violence over the past week. The Supreme Leader will address the nation tomorrow (apart from the standard cynical ideas in my head I have no idea what he'll say), and he is supposed to meet with the candidates on Saturday, followed by 9 brisk holes of golf on Sunday morning.

Forgiving my unnecessary editorializing and speculation about the Supreme Leader's day-to-day activities, we can move on to other events. People have been throwing in their two cents on the Iran situation and among them is Senator John McCain:

"He should speak out that this is a corrupt, flawed sham of an election, and that the Iranian people have been deprived of their rights," Senator McCain said. "We support them in their struggle against a repressive, oppressive regime and they should not be subjected to four more years of Ahmadinejad and the radical Muslim clerics."

Senator McCain manages to kill two birds with one stone as he expresses his opinion about what Obama should do while at the very same time reminding us all why he himself was not elected president. McCain, who represented nothing less than four more years of the U.S. version of Ahmadinejad alongside the radical Christian clerics, would do well to look at what he says in writing and see if it fits in anywhere with the way the people out there actually making progress are behaving.

A few things in brief before I walk alone to Central Market for what must be the fifth time this week and try not to cry into a kids' size serving of gelato:

Afghan civilians are still dying as a result of the war we brought to their soil.

Israel is pressuring Arab states to push the PA to resume peace talks after a lot of them are upset over Netanyahu's speech on Sunday. It wasn't an actual Palestinian state that he offered them by any means, but it was a step in the right direction, and that's better than the last 60 years.

And finally, if you are still a bit unclear on Iran right now, read this article in the New York Times, it's good stuff.