This one doesn't need to be long, but I'm not going to be quiet about ridiculousness that accompanies theocratic rule, whether it's in Kansas or Iran.
Ahmadinejad in trouble for touching Chavez's grieving mother.
Avert your eyes if you must from this salacious photo:
Apparently Ahmadinejad's people knew he had screwed up (as far as conservative theocratic Iranian clerics are concerned) because they made a laughable, and damning, effort to photoshop the photo to prove it was a photo shop.
But, it's RIDICULOUS that he would even have to struggle to find an excuse for the photo. It SEEMS a genuinely heartfelt moment of emotion displayed by a political leader of the theocratic regime in Tehran. Humanity? No, ALLAH!!!! (or God, or Jehovah, or Yaweh, or Shivva, or whomever else is telling you to be a bigoted asshole).
Reading crap like this just puts a meme on your face, and reminds us that it's important to push back against elements like this in our society too.