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If you, like me, are absolutely gobsmacked by the comparative lack of coverage by the US Mass Media of what is currently happening in Iran, I strongly recommend that you ready Andrew Sullivan’s blog.

Sullivan has been aggregating news from Iranian bloggers, the scraps of information coming from media outlets, the leaks coming from within Iran via Twitter, and more. Absolutely stunning things going on — which we’re largely not hearing about.

Go check it out. Go back to Friday the 12th, and read from there.

The photo above hit me especially hard — two young men, about the same age. One wearing the green of the Moussavi supporters, who are rioting over the stolen election. One wearing the black riot gear of the special police sent out to quell the uprising. The dissident is sheltering the riot policeman. Both men are victims of the coup.

Yup — “officially OLD” as Dotta Numba 2 says.

Day was spent in picking up The Minion from the airport (she’s back from college for the summer), and then dinner and a footie match with the wife and both daughters. (Kansas City 3, New England 1 — and all three KC goals were scored on our end of the pitch.)

The rest of the weekend will most likely involve a viewing of the full uncut version of John Woo’s Red Cliff tomorrow (possibly) — or at the very least something equally recreational.

Thanks for the kind wishes, folks.

In a deal I suspect was put into place last summer (when the rumors were flying hot and heavy), Christiano Ronaldo is leaving Manchester United for Real Madrid in the Spanish League. His last role at United: Serving as a one-man stimulus package in a bad economy, garnering the club £80 Million.

His performance this year was lackluster compared to last year (another reason I suspect the deal was already in place — he seemed to half-ass it this season. Although, truthfully, his “half-assed” is still far and away beyond most players “whole-assed” — I mean he was still the team’s top scorer…), and, I suppose if one of the best footballers in the world is going to leave my favorite team, I’d rather that he leave for another League entirely.

It will be interesting to see what ManU does in the transfer market to shore up the loss.

Interestingly, this means that Real Madrid now have both Ronaldo and Kaka. Yikes.