Takin’ It to the Streets

Iran is proving once again why it may be a while before it gets a chance to host the Summer Olympics. Violent protests erupted following Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presidential victory last week, and now even fat dudes in Tehran are hesitant to vote in kebab-tasting contests for fear of choosing the "wrong one." Say what you will about the Iranian people, but don’t call them apathetic when it comes to politics. These folks like their elections like the Irish like their soccer … bloody, with lots of silly songs and chants yelled incoherently in the streets. We are expecting to hear the recount results they want us to hear, when they want us to hear them. 

In 2007, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stunned clerical authorities and the Grand Ayatollah Mohommad Fazel Lankarani  (we recommend the Grand Ayatollah with cheese) – by saying that women should be allowed to attend men’s soccer matches. Listen, it’s one thing to rebuff the Holocaust, support the manufacture of nuclear weapons, and deny freedom of expression and assembly, but chicks at a sporting event?  Somebody needs to retake the crazy-leadership seminar.