Iran Men's Fashion Video Special: "Are These Shorts Getting You in the Mahmoud?"

Noted American political commentator Stephen Colbert takes a stand against Iran's new order for the "morality police", cracking down on inappropriate fashion such as shorts and men's necklaces. He even has a fashion suggestion for the Supreme Leader: "The Ayatollah might be a lot less angry if he got some air down there."

Once you have decided whose legs are better --- Colbert's or Khameini's? --- then Arshama3's Blog works with an EA feature from July 2010 to give you the wider context: proper politics comes not only from proper clothing but from proper haircuts....

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The Rally for Sanity: An Eyewitness Account "We Came Because We Were Tired"

As we walked back to the metro station six blocks away, we were joined by another portion of the same sea. Humans as far as the eye could see. That's when I realised what everyone was doing there --- they were tired.

Tired of being told to get together to change things. Tired of being told to gather round and decry the coming Apocalypse. Tired of being promised change, restoration, and God knows what and then losing that hope and finding the fear unfounded. But most of all, they were tired of being told what to do. They wanted to come together and do what they wanted to do, which was beautiful, sad, bizarre and, in some cases, pointless.

Will it make a difference? Does anything these days?

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