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Yes, I recommend echinacea instead. Keep it natural. Can't go wrong. Everyone seems to be wearing these flu mask things here in Bangkok. The government is handing out 20 million of them free. Any worker exposed to the public pretty much has to wear one. Anyway, I was convinced I'd caught it...

The chances of actually being able to answer these questions accurately and honestly are slim to none. Maybe a close friend would be able to answer them for me, but then I'd probably disagree with him. Like I'm not the same person all of the time, I could easily select both depending on my...

A strike would seem to be the better option now then, opposed to demonstrating on the streets, given the comments by the Revolutionary Guard. Saw something earlier about a possible strike on the 26th? Anyone know anything more?

My god, I'm starting to really hate Chavez... terrible cognitive dissonance. Edit: Speaking of dissonance -- Lenin's Tomb, pretty funny.

I think people try to do what they need to do. But then there's all the stuff we don't need to do, but do anyway. And that's where you need the guiding hand of a role model...

Yeah, I got a bit carried away by Twitter's role in Iran at first, which Padraig rightly picked me up on. Although in my defense I was thinking more of the potential of it, rather than the actual role it played, which wasn't really clear at the time. Anyway, here are three skeptical articles...

My role model was Humphrey Bogart. He taught me a lot about life. How to deal with my emotions and stuff. Fake it 'til you make it...

Thanks. I've pasted that to him. Although he does say he has dreams where he's a woman all dressed up and stuff, and he does seem to be into men now (and women still I think). Plus some men have become transsexual lesbians haven't they?

Oh. The same friend who wants the surgery was on some really weird high estrogen diet for a while thinking it'd change the way he thinks... he thinks he was a better person while he was on it, but he really tried it because he thought it'd help him to crack the code of 'gayness'. It didn't. This...

That's pretty much what he's doing. He's already wearing a dress and sleeping with men and stuff (he was fully heterosexual before). I understand it's difficult to know where your 'true desire' lies... how do you find a way out of the circle of reflexivity? In the last email he said: "I mean...

I know. I dunno why he keeps saying it. He thinks it proves his point in some way... then agrees with me that it's exactly the converse of what he thinks it might mean. Then we get drunk again and the whole argument is repeated.

I'm not against it in general at all, of course. I just think he's doing for all the wrong reasons. Contrary to what you said: it's precisely because he believes in this fantasy of masculinity and femininity that he wants to get the surgery. He's got these fixed notions of 'girlyness'... He's...

I have a friend (who in other ways is a good Marxist) that keeps insisting to me that women are fundamentally different, and attributes to them some sort of mystical feminine 'intuition'... it's weird because he always quotes Deleuze at me: 'We don't know what a body can do' and then says stuff...

^ Incredible... RT from Iran: State TV showing staged interview with a detainee saying he had orders from Monafeghin in Britain!! #iranElection #gr88

Yeah, and of course Khamenei already laid the grounds for such disinformation/simulation yesterday when he said: "Street demonstrations are a target for terrorist plots. Who would be responsible if something happened?" I think there's going to be a natural tendency for protesters to idolize...

Most likely he said this: "Mousavi has said protesters are ready for martyrdom, a witness told Reuters." Which we already know is true, assuming the suicide bomber report was true (& was a genuine protester). Maybe a bit of wishful thinking on the part of the twitterers? Plus the unavoidable...

"Probably CS tear gas crystals mixed in water which is why washing it off only makes it worse" #iranelection -- Not sure where the quote is from though...

What we know for sure is that he's sent a letter to the Guardian Council detailing the electoral fraud. I don't know if anyone wants to go through it and pull out any substantive points... the translation is almost unreadable.

Could be interpreted as, 'I am resigned to my fate, I am ready for death', or something along those lines ? It would be an extraordinary thing to say... (if he did say it, of course).

Although I've just seen it again, but this time acid substituted for boiling water... Some reports claim Mousavi as saying he was "prepared for martyrdom" in his speech. Guardian says: 'There are Twitter accounts claiming that Mousavi has given a speech at Jeyhoon Street in which he said: "We...