The Mouse That Roared

mouse, n.  An animal which strews its path with fainting women.

— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in white suit standing on a small, round table like a woman in a 60s sitcom, terrified of a computer mouse on the floor.

(Ahmadinejad image from the International Society for Human Rights.  via Rantings of a Sandmonkey blog)

Postscript:  I'll probably post links to favorite sources in the updates section regarding the fallout from the Iranian election.  I say fallout, because I'm not sure it's a revolution just quite yet.

To get the ball rolling, Michael Totten's been writing some good stuff (scroll down to June 2009), while over in Egypt, Sandmonkey is as interesting and entertaining as usual.


UPDATE:  Good column at the Belmont Club.  Michael Ledeen's also has some good stuff, although he's a bit more optimistic about the results of a Mousavi win than I am.

UPDATE #2:  A thorough backgrounder from the Tehran Bureau blog.  Quite a lot of info at their site.

UPDATE (Jun 20/09):  Heh.  Iran's worst clerics.


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