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POPSHamid Dabashi on Iran: this isn't class or sectarian conflict -- it's something new Hamid Dabashi is a Columbia University professor. He views the current situation in Iran as something fundamentally non-ideological. He compares it to the U.S. civil rights movement and predicts that a nonviolent resistance will continue for some time. I like the final line: "We need to sit back, hope for the best and let this inspirational movement of a whole new generation of hope teach us courage and humility."
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POPSBarack Obama added you as a friend! Randomly generates some text about all the great things Barack Obama did for you: wrote on your FunWall, gave you a puppy, loves your laugh, made you a mixtape, told me to tell you hello.
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POPSTen minutes with the Christians United for Israel Max Blumenthal's highly unauthorized ten-minute video piece on what John Hagee's influential organization, the Christians United for Israel, actually preaches: mass conversion of Jews, Muslims as Satanists, a Middle East peace treaty as the work of Antichrist, etc.
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POPSJapanese company introduces "voter turnout bra" A Japanese clothing company has created a "concept bra" to encourage Japanese citizens to vote (turnout has been low lately). From the source: . With voter apathy and a general aversion to politics worsening each year, the government has taken a variety of measures to encourage participation in the election process. Taking matters into their own hands, Triumph decided to focus attention on the problem by unveiling the Voter Turnout Lift-UP! Bra along with their fall/winter collection on May 9.
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POPSLincoln Chafee (R-RI) on the Democrats' gains Lincoln Chafee recalls Cheney's offhanded dismissal of bipartisan tactics after the 2000 election and deplores the viciousness of partisan politics since 1994. He's right; it wasn't always this way. Kind of sorry to see him go.
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POPSWhy the Democrats took Pennsylvania The Inky's perspective on Santorum's loss: Pennsylvanians saw him as an intolerant, arrogant, bullying know-it-all, and saw Casey and Gov. Rendell as moderate, solution-focused politicians who've worked successfully with those they disagree with.
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POPSLiberalism and human sinfulness Jon Ebel for the Revealer on the surprising sympathy between liberal values and an old-fashioned Christian view of human frailty and fallenness. Liberalism claims, he says, that everyone is messed up and that we all need to help one another heal. So do Luther and Calvin.
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POPSThe God That Never Failed (Book Review) Interesting review of Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction , David Kuo's wide-eyed, first-hand disillusionment with the Bush Administration's cynical exploitation of faith-based initiatives for political purposes.
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POPSLong Island politics and Sufism The Revealer has a piece on Peter King's vendetta against the Islamic Center of Long Island, and how his statements have inadvertently put him in the middle of an intra-Islamic conflict.
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