Assholes:

An Associated Press photographer saw one person shot dead and several others who appear seriously wounded in Tehran’s Azadi Square. The shooting came from a compound for volunteer militia linked to Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard.

The gunfire Monday came after more than 100,000 opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad streamed through Tehran. They were not challenged by security forces despite an earlier ban on rallies for reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Disputes over alleged vote rigging in last week’s elections have touched off days of rioting in Tehran.

Video of marchers after the jump:
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Iranian callers to Brian Lehrer’s show on WNYC this morning say friends and relatives in the country are telling them the violence is much worse than reported.  Tehranlive photoblog is here. Lehrer has more links here. This is in Tehran:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyssJGHsGyw

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This is my favorite Warner Bros. cartoon EVAR. Post a link to yours in the comments. And yes – I am basically a big six-year-old. Deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZLsiZtXsyA

Sully says Iran’s election commission calling for a do-over:

Yes, the president of Iran’s own election monitoring commission has declared the result invalid and called for a do-over. That is huge news: when a regime’s own electoral monitors beak ranks, what chance does the regime have of persuading anyone in the world or Iran that it has democratic legitimacy?

Stay tuned.

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Truly a thing of beauty – O’Reilly, flummoxed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDV1jsPlKD8

[via Roy] The Anchoress

“We would not have toilets if a capitalist had not taken a chance, held his breath and flushed.” — The Anchoress.

[googling]

The ancient cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, e.g., Harappa^[1] and Mohenjo-daro^[2] which are located in present day India & Pakistan had flush toilets attached to a sophisticated sewage system^[3]—and other forms of toilets were used both in the time of the Romans and Egyptians as well.^[4] Although a precursor to the modern flush toilet system was designed in 1596 by John Harington,^[5] the toilet did not enter into widespread use until the late nineteenth century, when it was adopted in English upper class residences.^[6]

More on The Anchoress here.

Andrew Breitbart.

Joining the right’s epic meltdown over the Holocaust Museum shooting, he leaves Gawker’s John Cook a profanity-laced voicemail, ultimately concluding that von Brunn is not a right-wing nutjob, but has more in common with a lesbian studies major.

I shit you not.

Best comment at Gawker so far:

You’re totally right. Nativism is not a right-wing idea. We all know that the Minutemen are a bunch of campus leftists and queer theorists.

This might beat Special Ed for the dumbest wingnut comment on this topic. I predict more insanity, maybe even better insanity!