. . . I recommend heading over to Andrew Sullivan’s blog, The Daily Dish, for the latest on what’s happening in Iran.
If my brain weren’t sizzling from fever, I’d offer some commentary on the ways politics is cracking against authority, and that authority’s transformation of the most prosaic of activities (e.g., honking one’s car horn) into a sign of resistance worthy of violent suppression.
(Perhaps you are glad my brain is frying. . . .)
Politics isn’t dead. And liberation, however unlikely, however fraught, is just. . . barely. . . possible.
Politics: The art of the possible.
AbsurdBeats 
And here I always thought politics was the art of the compromise… 😉
Compromise and possibility are cousins, doncha know—tho’ not always of the kissing kind. . . .