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8:34

Megan - I feel like, in honor of this feature's history, I should complain about being hungover, but mostly I have cotton mouth and am tired from getting up early to move my car.

8:38

Moe Tkacik - Hi dude. Did you know that Myanmar aka Burma has a new capital city and the North Koreans are helping them build tunnels underneath it? Cool, huh? This piece of news is sorta buried on the WSJ homepage because of the much more serious development of Myanmar finally getting a pro soccer team. And yeah, I'm not hungover either, but that's just because my tolerance is even better than it was when I was blogging. You know, I've taken some time out to really focus on my drinking.

8:40

Moe Tkacik - This reminds me I wanted to read about Steve Jobs' liver transplant, because that's more uplifting than the deadly Metro crash, which is more uplifting than the rogue VA prostate unit I read about Sunday, which is taken together all one giant heatwarming heroic animal story next to the latest news from Iran.

8:40

Megan - Everyone needs a hobby... You know, I do vaguely remember that Burma was getting a new capital somewhere far, far away from those pesky "people" they rule. But a pro-soccer team, that's a development protocol I can really get behind.

8:42

Megan - Yeah, they've scheduled Ahmadenijad's swearing in, and vowed to teach the protesters a lesson, and started charging for the privilege of being killed by the government. The average cost of the latter is about $3,000-$5,000. Bullets are expensive, you know.

8:45

Moe Tkacik - Ha, can they blame any of our weapons embargo things for that? Anyway here is a bright spot: the Andrew Sullivan of Iran turns out to be…some Israeli dude with a call-in radio show.

8:47

Moe Tkacik - Huh this is interesting:
Mr. Amir minces no word in expressing his outrage over a statement by Meir Dagan, the chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, who told a parliamentary committee last week that the extent of fraud in Iran's contested presidential elections was no worse than what happens in liberal democracies.

8:48

Megan - Well, sounds like the Israelis are sweating it that we might be nicer to Iran without making them drop the whole "drive the Jews into the sea" thingie if Mousavi does take power. Or else they're really, really pissed about our electoral system. Or someone really dislikes Netanyahu.

8:49

Moe Tkacik - I guess that clears up all those nagging questions about how Ahmedinejad would have had to carry not only all his old supporters but 44% of reformists as well or whatever.

8:52

Megan - There are nagging questions? Wait, I got it! Dagan is just an American neocon who wants to believe that Ahmadenijad won so he can continue justifying violence against the nation insofar as that's what he already wanted to see happen!

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