16 July 2009

nearly seventy-three, he gets a burst of romance

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...and finally marries her. I was diverted by this while over at Reuters considering if I wanted to rewrite the damn propaganda-dripping item about Ahmadinejad. The part that's bugging me the most lately is that so many Iranians are falling for this ceaseless mental conditioning campaign. It, as you know, makes me crazy that most of us in the West fall for it, but when our victims are coming under its globalizing umbrella it's just so stultifying that I keep having to scrape bits of myself off my walls... so I may forego the impulse to rewrite that piece.

Or I may generate the moxie for it when I've had more coffee....

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