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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Title: “Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”

Author: Glenn Beck

Rank: 3

Blurb: “Glenn Beck revisits Paine’s powerful treatise with one purpose: to galvanize Americans to see past government’s easy solutions, two-part monopoly, and illogical methods and take back our great country.”

Review: “Thomas Paine was a rabble-rousing hellion who punched out many more revolutionary pamphlets than those collected in ‘Common Sense.’ Further, Thomas Paine didn’t survive the George Washington government following the American Revolution and took off for France to fight in the French Revolution in 1792. Paine was a out-and-out lefty and where Glen Beck gets off acquiring Paine to boost his sales is typical of the former CNN commentator, the rat. Reader, beware.”

Customers Also Bought: “Unlikely Mormon: The Conversion Story of Glenn Beck”

Footnote: You didn’t know Glenn sports the magic undies? Neither did we!

Glenn Beck’s Common Sense [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Since the occasional cutaway to Christiane Amanpour isn’t doing it for us, here’s a list of online resources providing continuing coverage and analysis of what certainly feels like a world-historical event, even if it’s happening on a sleepy cable-news weekend.

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

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

Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife, not-Michelle Obama, vote Friday.

So we’re talking about Iran with our neighbor, who has family in the region, and we try out our line about how if you’re going to steal an election, at least make a good show of it.

And then as he expresses his fear about what will happen if so many hopes are dashed, we recall that this week is the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen — the iconic tank photo was taken June 5.

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[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.