Safir-2 rocket. Iran launched the Omid satellite

Kinda makes you want to speak Farsi doesn't it?

Prepare to Gag on Ignatieff

Mr. Wieseltier added: “When I would see Michael [Ignatieff], he and I would stroll arm in arm around Covent Garden singing — poorly, of course — some of the great quintet in the first act of ‘Così Fan Tutte.’ There was in him a hunger for intellectual authority and for a certain degree of social recognition, but it was never about power."

From the NYT