<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366</id><updated>2012-01-17T21:12:45.077-08:00</updated><category term='Privacy'/><category term='Philosophy'/><category term='Thoughts'/><category term='Quotes'/><category term='No War on Iran'/><category term='Daily'/><category term='Travel'/><category term='Politics'/><title type='text'>Ehsan and Ehsoonha</title><subtitle type='html'>and everything else</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>59</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-6311539339851555346</id><published>2010-11-14T20:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-14T20:54:33.525-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>An angel's cry in the middle of the night, confirms that there is no god the rest of the day.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-6311539339851555346?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/6311539339851555346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=6311539339851555346' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6311539339851555346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6311539339851555346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2010/11/angels-cry-in-middle-of-night-confirms.html' title=''/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-635312914571225698</id><published>2010-04-10T12:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-24T18:21:34.555-07:00</updated><title type='text'>نان سنگک</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;سالها پیش، وسط شب موندن های تو مدرسه قبل کنکور، با علی صحبت از بازکردن یه نون سنگک پزی توی آمریکا بود. الان بعد از یه دهه مهندسی کامپیوتر هنوز هم آرزوی خوبیه. هفته پیش اولین نون سنگکمون رو درست کردیم و یکی از معنوی ترین تجربه های زندگیم بود&lt;br /&gt;دستور پخت نون سنگک رو مطابق سایت &lt;a href="http://chenchene.com/?p=85"&gt;آشپزخانه خسن آقا&lt;/a&gt; دنبال کردیم که خداییش دستش درد نکنه و همون طور که خسن آقا گفت، یکی از سرچشمه های هنر ایرانی رو به نابودی است. انتظار داشتم که کتاب آشپزی نجف دریابندری دستور پختش رو داشته باشه ولی نداشت&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;این هفته دوباره می خوایم نون سنگک درست کنیم و عزم کردیم که توصیف پختش رو مطابق جوری که خودمون داریم درست می کنیم براتون بنویسم:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;مرحله اول&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;مرحله اول همون تهیه خمیر ترشه. یک بسته مخمر خشک (ییست) که حدود ۷ گرم میشه رو توی یک کاسه خالی می کنیم. بعد یک پیمانه آرد سفید سبوس دار رو بهش اضافه می کنیم و بعد هم یک پیمانه آبی که هم درجه دمای اتاقه رو روشون خالی می کنیم. کلش رو خوب بهم می زنیم و آخرسر سر پیاله رو با پلاستیک می پوشونیم و چندتا سوراخ هم با چاقو توش ایجاد می کنیم و می گذاریمش توی یخچال تا ۲۴ ساعت بمونه. حالا منتظرم که ۲۴ ساعت بگذره تا مرحله دوم رو شروع کنیم.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;مرحله دوم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;خب، حالا که فردا شده، وارد مرحله دوم می شیم. در یک بادیه بزرگی شش پیمانه آرد سفید سبوس دار را با سه قاشق چایی خوری نمک و سه پیمانه آب با هم مخلوط می کنم تا خمیر سفتی درست بشه. شما می تونید از میکسر آشپزخانه استفاده کنید ولی من چون میکسر ندارم اول با دست و پنجه و بعد با پردازشگر غذا خمیر رو درست می کنم. حالا سر بادیه رو با دستمال آشپزخونه پوشوندم و گذاشتمش تا نیم ساعت بماند.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;مرحله سوم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;نیم ساعت گذشت. حالا خمیر ترشی که دیروز درست کردم رو از یخچال دراوردم و با سه گرم مخمری که در یک پیمانه آب حل شده را به خمیر اضافه می کنم. دوباره شما از میکسر اسفاده کنید و من هم چنگ می زنم. چنگ زدن خمیر از دلپذیرترین چنگ زدن هاست! خلاصه خوب که مخلوط شدند دوباره می ذارمش که ور بیاد. این دفعه به مدت دو ساعت و نیم.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;مرحله چهارم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;الان دو ساعت گذشته و من نیم ساعت وقت دارم که هم سنگها را آماده کنم و هم فر را آتیش کنم! من اول المان های پایین فر را روشن من کنم و روی ۵۵۰ فارنهایت می ذارم. در زمانی که فر داره گرم می شه سنگها رو هم توی سینی ریختم و گذاشتم توی فر که با هم داغ بشن. برای پختن خود نان همچنان المان های پایین فر رو روشن می گذارم&lt;br /&gt;حالا که خمیر هم آماده است، به وسیله ای برای پهن کردن خمیر روی سنگ احتیاج است. خسن آقا خودش یه پارو درست کرده، ما سنگی که روش پنیر قاچ می کنن رو برداشتیم. مهمش اینه که خوب هم سطح اون رو با آب خیس کنین و هم دستاتون رو و بعد یه چونه خمیر بردارین. اگه می خواین خشخاشی باشه کنجد فراموش نشه! من کنجد رو اول می ریزم روی تخته و بعد چونه رو می ذارم روش و با انگشتام مالشش می دم. بعد سینی پر سنگ رو از فر در می یارم و خمیر رو پهن می کنم روش. اینجا به قول خسن آقا باید قمبل مبارک را با ریتم تکان داد و هنر به خرج داد تا نون خوب پهن بشه. برای من هر نون حدود ده دقیقه طول می کشه تا بپزه. نکته خیلی مهم اینه که سنگها باید حسابی داغ شده باشند وگرنه بدجوری به خمیر خواهند چشبید.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;در مورد آرد&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;هفته اول ما با آرد سفید امتحان کردیم، هفته دوم با آرد سبوس دار غیر سفید و این هفته با آرد سفید سبوسدار. آرد سفید سبوس دار مزه ش به سنگک از همه نزدیک تر بود&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ehsoonha.com/uploaded_images/IMG_0830-755985.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; 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when a great hope is crushed only to leave the bitter taste of sorrow and desperation; when state's iron fist tore any lips that speaks a mind; when no media reflected the hears of those marching in the streets in silents; a poem, written hundred years ago, brings a rush of blood to our face. When arrests and brutal beatings have taken the grandeur out of the great Alborz Mountain, the beauty out of the migration of sparrows, the rhythm out of the sound of rain drops on moving umbrellas, a lyric sang by our forefathers in another struggle for freedom can let this devastated mind wonder free and lets this heart hope.&lt;br /&gt;I remember after the first massacre on the streets of Tehran, a group of Iranian-Americans, each with a different political ideals, sat on the ground in a square in Palo Alto, mourning their brothers and sisters. In large letters on a piece of paper in the middle of their warm huddle read "Today Iran Wept, but Tomorrow is another Day"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-2781878897987058710?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/2781878897987058710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=2781878897987058710' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2781878897987058710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2781878897987058710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2010/03/sigh-emit-long-deep-audible-breath.html' title='Sigh: emit a long, deep, audible breath expressing sadness'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-7889499293824152588</id><published>2010-01-01T08:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-01T08:05:48.007-08:00</updated><title type='text'>سفر ايران 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;&lt;div id=":6f" class="ii gt" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 20px; "&gt;&lt;div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right; direction: rtl; "&gt;حقيقتي تلخ يكي هم اينكه استبداد و وحشي گري هاي سياسي ايران مثالي هم در رفتارهاي روزمره خانواده ها دارد. اگر كه حتي بپذيريم تفكر استبدادي بنياني در ميان ما ندارد، منش استبدادي حاضر است و بسياري احمدي نژادي در درون ميپرورند.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="hq gt" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; clear: both; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="hi" style="background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; background-position: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="gA gt" style="font-size: 13px; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; background-position: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-7889499293824152588?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/7889499293824152588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=7889499293824152588' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/7889499293824152588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/7889499293824152588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2010/01/1.html' title='سفر ايران 1'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-2366726437525673361</id><published>2009-10-11T23:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-11T23:48:52.546-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Life is full of repetitions, patterns and anniversaries. I take comfort in them. It gives me a sense of having a history.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-2366726437525673361?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/2366726437525673361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=2366726437525673361' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2366726437525673361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2366726437525673361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2009/10/life-is-full-of-repetitions-patterns.html' title=''/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-7532079189622120682</id><published>2009-09-20T22:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-20T22:52:36.223-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>I am&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My contemporary self,&lt;br /&gt;A fragile happy.&lt;br /&gt;Every moment a cell&lt;br /&gt;Kills itself in me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lightly lighted backyard,&lt;br /&gt;Where I sing and bow,&lt;br /&gt;I pace back and forth,&lt;br /&gt;Now, then, then, now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-7532079189622120682?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-7879679318244213721</id><published>2009-06-02T01:33:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-02T01:34:48.807-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Mousavi, 1979 revolution's last hurrah.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-7879679318244213721?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/7879679318244213721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=7879679318244213721' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/7879679318244213721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/7879679318244213721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2009/06/mousavi-1979-revolutions-last-hurrah.html' title=''/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-2838457427002570959</id><published>2009-06-02T01:33:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-02T01:33:18.586-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Iran, Where Freedom is so Consequential</title><content type='html'>I love the fact that there&amp;#39;s a Mousavi and a Karoubi; a choice, but&lt;br&gt;without primaries, the cost of that choice can be a Ahmadinezad.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-2838457427002570959?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/2838457427002570959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=2838457427002570959' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2838457427002570959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2838457427002570959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2009/06/iran-where-freedom-is-so-consequential.html' title='Iran, Where Freedom is so Consequential'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-7574680098579953727</id><published>2009-05-30T06:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-30T06:51:02.598-07:00</updated><title type='text'>نوبهاری</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;عمری دکر بباید بعد از فراق ما را&lt;br /&gt;کاین عمر صرف کردیم اندر امیدواری&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://rira.ir/rira/php/?page=view&amp;amp;mod=classicpoems&amp;amp;obj=poem&amp;amp;id=10157"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;سعدی&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-7574680098579953727?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/7574680098579953727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=7574680098579953727' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/7574680098579953727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/7574680098579953727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post.html' title='نوبهاری'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-2503388288229248442</id><published>2009-05-10T00:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-10T00:13:36.305-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Do you remember the night with the blue moon were everything was white?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-2503388288229248442?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/2503388288229248442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=2503388288229248442' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-6566844856478137135?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/6566844856478137135/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=6566844856478137135' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6566844856478137135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6566844856478137135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2009/05/cori-and-gigi.html' title=''/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-5411416170097868844</id><published>2009-05-05T10:48:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-05T10:48:16.241-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>My fishes stayed up the night with me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-5411416170097868844?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/5411416170097868844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=5411416170097868844' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/5411416170097868844'/><link rel='self' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-8373263689031035178</id><published>2009-04-25T18:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-25T18:30:37.689-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>You said when you walked through those halls, seeing so many people  &lt;br&gt;involved and running for a single patient, doctors become a small part  &lt;br&gt;of the whole things.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-8373263689031035178?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/8373263689031035178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=8373263689031035178' title='0 Comments'/><link 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class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-844086403197713365?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/844086403197713365/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=844086403197713365' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/844086403197713365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/844086403197713365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2009/04/you-get-into-another-dimension-of.html' title=''/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-8634534226699869513</id><published>2009-04-25T10:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-25T10:37:04.560-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>As we turned the turns of Pacifica, you said you enjoy Earth more than  &lt;br&gt;any other planet. So manythings I don&amp;#39;t know about you!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-8634534226699869513?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/8634534226699869513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=8634534226699869513' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/8634534226699869513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/8634534226699869513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-we-turned-turns-of-pacifica-you-said.html' title=''/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-6216148653585715735</id><published>2009-04-22T20:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T21:10:31.065-07:00</updated><title type='text'>War Music</title><content type='html'>After a long hot day, standing on top of a hill, as the approaching darkness of night and the gushing mist made it difficult, but not impossible, to make out the people passing by, I had two choice; either to think about death or a weird play we saw not long ago. To my surprise, I thought of the latter, the &lt;a href="http://www.act-sf.org/089/warmusic/index.html"&gt;War Music&lt;/a&gt;, allegedly a modern rendition of the Iliad. It was one of those plays that you either will love it or passionately hate, but I felt neither; well it was too long and they talked too much, making me numb and exhausted to feel anything or to form an opinion. Feeling the mist on my face and my vision impaired however, my opinion was formed: I loved it. It reminded me of the time that I read or wrote pieces that made no sense, but had some elements that barely promised a notion of intelligence, and that promise alone made them beautiful &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;for me&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-6216148653585715735?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/6216148653585715735/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=6216148653585715735' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6216148653585715735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6216148653585715735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2009/04/war-music.html' title='War Music'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-4763435048700431924</id><published>2009-04-21T21:17:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-21T21:17:49.231-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>To thread the needle from this side or that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-4763435048700431924?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-8714343575288274984</id><published>2009-04-21T20:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-21T20:27:16.160-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>I felt I was in your skin,&lt;br /&gt;smiled your smile,&lt;br /&gt;made your hand gesture, fingers tilted downward.&lt;br /&gt;Should I have called you then?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-8714343575288274984?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/8714343575288274984/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=8714343575288274984' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/8714343575288274984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/8714343575288274984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-felt-i-was-in-your-skin-smiled-your.html' title=''/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-2469446294653247009</id><published>2009-04-05T21:54:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-05T21:54:43.520-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Only a true friend reminds you how lucky you are.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-2469446294653247009?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/2469446294653247009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=2469446294653247009' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2469446294653247009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2469446294653247009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2009/04/only-true-friend-reminds-you-how-lucky.html' title=''/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-6816027029811869493</id><published>2009-02-02T15:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-02T15:18:12.877-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Most people, when presented with a chance to admit their mistake, will just act rude and hostile, unless you stay in their faces. Sad world we live in.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-6816027029811869493?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/6816027029811869493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=6816027029811869493' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6816027029811869493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6816027029811869493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2009/02/most-people-when-presented-with-chance.html' title=''/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-2157729900445899169</id><published>2009-01-21T21:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T21:52:32.702-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The First Poem I Understood: Saint Judas</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" name="KonaFilter"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;For the longest time, none of the poems I read in English made sense to me until this one by James Wright:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I went out to kill myself, I caught&lt;br /&gt;A pack of hoodlums beating up a man.&lt;br /&gt;Running to spare his suffering, I forgot&lt;br /&gt;My name, my number, how my day began,&lt;br /&gt;How soldiers milled around the garden stone&lt;br /&gt;And sang amusing songs; how all that day&lt;br /&gt;Their javelins measured crowds; how I alone&lt;br /&gt;Bargained the proper coins, and slipped away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Banished from heaven, I found this victim beaten,&lt;br /&gt;Stripped, kneed, and left to cry. Dropping my rope&lt;br /&gt;Aside, I ran, ignored the uniforms:&lt;br /&gt;Then I remembered bread my flesh had eaten,&lt;br /&gt;The kiss that ate my flesh. Flayed without hope,&lt;br /&gt;I held the man for nothing in my arms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-2157729900445899169?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/2157729900445899169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=2157729900445899169' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2157729900445899169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2157729900445899169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2009/01/first-poem-i-understood-saint-judas.html' title='The First Poem I Understood: Saint Judas'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-6882217918859386066</id><published>2009-01-19T01:22:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-19T01:22:50.127-08:00</updated><title type='text'>دوست</title><content type='html'>دوست خوب کمه، دوست الکی هم خوبه&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-6882217918859386066?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/6882217918859386066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=6882217918859386066' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6882217918859386066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6882217918859386066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post.html' title='دوست'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-1029977083004270854</id><published>2009-01-17T13:50:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-17T13:50:52.555-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>We live in a stupid, stupid world.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-1029977083004270854?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/1029977083004270854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=1029977083004270854' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/1029977083004270854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/1029977083004270854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2009/01/we-live-in-stupid-stupid-world.html' title=''/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-5943751439645353254</id><published>2008-11-02T17:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-17T13:51:51.231-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Come Monday</title><content type='html'>'The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral. Returning violence with violence only multiplies violence adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. King&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-5943751439645353254?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/5943751439645353254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=5943751439645353254' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/5943751439645353254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/5943751439645353254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/11/come-monday.html' title='Come Monday'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-3850180345328197798</id><published>2008-09-02T23:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-02T23:11:32.753-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daily'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>I really don't like killing spiders; but I do it anyway.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-3850180345328197798?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/3850180345328197798/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=3850180345328197798' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/3850180345328197798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/3850180345328197798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-really-dont-like-killing-spiders-but.html' title=''/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-7900434415439048655</id><published>2008-08-31T23:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-17T13:52:09.862-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Perfect Moments</title><content type='html'>It's a wonderful thing, a perfect moment.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-7900434415439048655?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/7900434415439048655/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=7900434415439048655' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/7900434415439048655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/7900434415439048655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/08/perfect-moments.html' title='Perfect Moments'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-3535482230875659993</id><published>2008-08-31T20:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-31T20:53:57.978-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thoughts'/><title type='text'>Grammar Checker in the Cloud</title><content type='html'>Whenever I'm not sure if a phrase I'm writing, I Google a portion of it to see if someone else used it the way I want to use it. It's fast and most of the time accurate since language is how it's used. So it's not hard to imagine that one can create a grammar checker that does just that: compares your text with the Cloud to see if you're using the language the same way.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-3535482230875659993?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/3535482230875659993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=3535482230875659993' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/3535482230875659993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/3535482230875659993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/08/grammar-checker-in-cloud.html' title='Grammar Checker in the Cloud'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-5777338529218082741</id><published>2008-08-23T18:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-23T18:57:28.139-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philosophy'/><title type='text'>بحران زبان</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;مطمئن هستم یکی یجایی از پیوند زبان و فکر استنباط کرده که بحران فکر همان بحران زبان است ولی یادم نمی آید که کی&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-5777338529218082741?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/5777338529218082741/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=5777338529218082741' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/5777338529218082741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/5777338529218082741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/08/blog-post.html' title='بحران زبان'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-7594570172614149610</id><published>2008-08-02T13:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-02T19:14:17.553-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philosophy'/><title type='text'>Feminist Ethics</title><content type='html'>After reading &lt;a href="http://leopold.wilderness.net/unpublished/UNP100.pdf"&gt;Mary Raugust's&lt;/a&gt; proposal for feminist ethics I filled with a sense of wisdom! That I read something so different and yet so reasonable. It had been a while ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;The central priority of ethics is not the concept of individual rights but of relationship with other human beings. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The principle goal of ethics is not autonomy and liberty of individual humans, rather it is “the giving and receiving of care appropriate to specific persons and their situations.” &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Interdependence over individualism. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The “other” with whom one deals morally must be distinctly personified and not an impersonal faceless abstraction. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moral judgments emerge from actual situations and are not derived by applying logical formulate to general principles. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Feminist ethics are “accepting rather than transformative.” &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Feminist ethics will be a morality of virtues rather than primarily one of justice. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-7594570172614149610?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/7594570172614149610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=7594570172614149610' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/7594570172614149610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/7594570172614149610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/08/feminist-ethics.html' title='Feminist Ethics'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-8099820396521903949</id><published>2008-06-24T09:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-24T11:09:22.971-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thoughts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>تاملاتی در باب قانون اساسی اسرائیل ۱</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;همیشه حسم این بوده که ایران و اسرائیل شباهتشون خیلی زیاده، نه چون گروهی از این دو با جنس مخالف دست نمی‌ده‌ یا بعد از غذا ساکت می‌شینه و دعا می‌خونه و مشکلی نداره که تو معطل نشستی، بلکه بیشتر بدین خاطر که هر دو اونا همت‌شون براینه که هویت خودشون رو بر اساس دین خودشون تعریف کنن.&lt;br /&gt;دنباله این کنجکاوی بدین‌جا کشید که کمی به تاریخچه قانون اساسی اسرائیل نگاه کنم. اما قبلش یک نکته.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;نکته: عجیب نیست که ما این همه روشنفکرهای عرب رو تحویل می‌گیریم درحالیکه جامعه‌ای که اونا ازش برخاستن نه انقدری که ایران هم دموکراسی بسته دغدغه‌ی دموکراسی دارن و نه به دموکراسی شهرت یافتن. اما در عوض کاملا بی‌خیال روشنفکرای اسرائیلی شده‌ایم و از اون مهمتر تقلایی که در آشتی دادن ارزش‌های غربی و تورات کرده‌اند.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;باری، من هم مانند بقیه‌ی آمریکایی‌ها گمانم بر این بود که هر جامعه‌ی موفقی الگو گرفته از آمریکاست و خب هیچ نمی‌دانستم که انگلیس یک قانون‌اساسی رسمی و تنظیم شده آن‌گونه که قانون‌اساسی آمریکا نوشته شده ندارد. اسرئیل هم چنین است اما به دلایل متفاوتی از انگلیس. قرار بر این بود که این سند تا سال ۱۹۴۸ تهیه شود اما به &lt;a href="http://www.jcpa.org/dje/articles/const-intro-93.htm"&gt;گفته&lt;/a&gt; الازار (یکی از تینک تنک‌های اسرائیل)  در مجلس اول که کارکرد مجلس موسسان نیز داشت، بحث بسیار شد که آیا قانون‌اساسی نوشته شده‌ای تنظیم گردد یا خیر. اما بحث به جایی نرسید چه گروه‌های مذهبی مخالف این ایده بودند که قانونی اساسی‌ای غیر از تورات وجود داشته باشد و البته گروه‌های چپ نیز مطمئن بودند که عقایدشان هیچ انعکاسی در قانون‌اساسی نخواهد یافت پس چه بهتر که قانون‌اساسی‌ای وجود نداشته باشد. نتیجه این شد که دیوید بن گوریون (اولین نخست وزیر اسرائیل) به مجلس موسسان پیشنهاد داد که نوشتن آن به تدریج انجام شود و هر مجلسی می تواند بندی بدان اضافه نماید و یکی از &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Laws_of_Israel"&gt;دلایل&lt;/a&gt; او این بود که باید منتظر ماند تا عموم یهودیان از سراسر جهان با خانه خود بازگردند. اگر کنجکاوید پیش‌نویس آن &lt;a href="http://www.cfisrael.org//home.html"&gt;این‌جاست&lt;/a&gt; (با آخرین تغییرات مجلس شانزدهم) که تاکنون ۱۴ قانون تصویب گشته‌اند که از جمله آنان قانون معروفی است که قدس را پایتخت اسرائیل نمود و در سال ۱۹۸۰ تصویب شد.&lt;br /&gt;‌ در «هاشمی بدون روتوش» خواندم که خمینی چه اسراری بر این داشت که همه چیز به سرعت شکل گیرد. تحلیل هاشمی این بود که مردم تشنه مشارکت بودند و می‌بایست با رای مردم حکومت و چارچوب مملکت را تعیین کنیم. تحلیل خوشایندی است اما اکنون و بعد از ۳۰ سال آیا انعطاف‌پذیری لازم در آن تعبیه شده بود؟&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;بحث‌های آشنا به کنار، آنچه من واقعا بدان کنجکاو بودم این بود که چگونه اسرائیل توانست خود را دولتی برای یهودیان سازد و هم‌چنان در بین غربیان شناخته شده به دولتی سکولار باشد که دینی را ترویج و ترجیح نمی‌دهد وبازجالب‌تر اینکه همچنان بانی یهودیان خارج از اسرائیل نیز بماند. به گمان من، این از موفقیت‌های اسرائیل است و موفق‌تر آنکه توانست آن را خصوصا در تقابل با کشورهای عرب و همسایه دیکتاتور خود به برگ برنده ساسی-اقتصادی در برابر کشورهای غربی تبدیل کند.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;الان باید برم سرکار (۱۱ ظهر!) بقیه‌ش باشه برای بعد&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-8099820396521903949?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/8099820396521903949/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>سفر ایران ۳</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ehsoonha.com/uploaded_images/DSC04360-798807.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.ehsoonha.com/uploaded_images/DSC04360-797934.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;یک عکس قابل تفسیر در لایه های مختلف&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-1717103182334926730?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/1717103182334926730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>سفر ایران ۲</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;سه چار تا پدیده تو ایران منو بیشتر از همه اذیت کرد و اگه کسی اینا رو از ایران بخونه یحتمل یخه منو بعدش می‌گیره که تو چه می‌دونی:&lt;br /&gt;۱)‌چقدر کم کاری و بدتر از اون نق زدن‌های بی‌زحمت شایعه. نکتش در بی‌زحمتی این نق زدن‌هاست و این رو هم از شیوعش میشه فهمید و هم از تکرارهای ملال‌آورش و هم از اینکه دکتر و مهندس و استاد دانشگاه علوم اجتماعی و راننده تاکسی و خانم خانه‌دار یک‌جور نق می‌زنند. بعد از چندتا مهمونی اول و رانندگی تو سطح شهر نه تنها غصه ایران منزوی رو می‌خوردم بلکه اضافه به اون حال شنیدن غرغرهای تکراری بعدی رو هم نداشتم! نکته‌اش در اینه که همه‌ی ما داریم یه جور عکس‌العمل نشون می‌دیم: اولین فرصت رفتن یا دودر کردن رو دو دستی می‌چسبیم! و اگه یکی یه نق جالب زد سریع SMS می‌شه به همه که بقیه هم همونجوری نق بزنند. خداییش از دوستام در یک level دیگه‌ای خوشم اومد!&lt;br /&gt;۲)‌ در بین روشنفکران با تجربه‌ای که می دیدم هم یک تحلیل نهایی بیشتر وجود نداشت: همه چیز گنده! که اونهم سرآخر تحویل می‌شه به حرف‌های راننده‌های معروف تاکسی. تو یکی از بحث‌ها از Sumner نقل قولی کردم (البته اون موقع هر چی فکر کردم اسمش یادم نیومد) و اینکه اگه از وضعیت کنونی خودت راضی نیستی، وظیفه اخلاقی خودت (و نه دیگران) اینه که خودتو خوشحال کنی و به قول این بابا "Get Capital". به نظرم نیومد که حس عمومی تلاش‌های شخصی آدماست برای اینکه زندگی‌های خودشونو بهتر کنند. نفت همه ما رو تنبل کرده و چشم‌مون خیره مونده به دست خیرین که اون‌ها هم سرمایه‌ای ندارند جز نفت. نشنیدم کسی بگه حقوق من کمه، کم پول در می‌یارم و یا چیزای دیگه‌ای که بیشتر در کنترل ماست اما همه از چیزی که از قدرتشون خارجه راحت می‌نالیدند (گرونی و سیاست‌های دولت) و اگه نقشی در تغییر اون بهشون تعارف کنی خیلی راحت دستتو رد می‌کنن و اگه بگی تو که خودت به احمدی‌نژاد رای دادی یا می‌گه فریب خوردم یا پوزخند می‌زنه و می‌گه دوباره‌هم رای می‌دم تا آمریکا بیاد ما رو نجات بده (وییخ!).&lt;br /&gt;۳) آقا انزوای ایران منو کشته. این از همه بدتره. یه جورایی فکر می‌کنم انزوا به آدما بیشتر اجازه و آزادی این رو می‌ده که تنبل باشن و زشتی‌های خودشونو تحمل و حتی توجیه کنند و یا حتی فکر کنند که چه ملت بزرگی‌اند: ما هیبت ابرقدرتها را شکسته‌ایم! یادمه بچه که بودم بابام رابطه ایران با آمریکا رو به یه بچه شروری مثل می‌زد که جلو بزرگ ده شیطنت می‌کنه و او هم نمی‌تونه بزنه تو گوشش (خداییش بهترین توصیف سیاست خارجی ما بود) و بعدش هم می‌رفت پیش بقیه‌ی بچه‌ها تعریف می‌کرد از حماسه‌ها و رشادت‌های خودش (البته پدرم این‌جوری نمی‌گفت!). انگاری سیاست خارجی ما همچنان همینه هرچند دیگه بزرگ ده سیلیه رو می‌زنه و باکیش هم نیست. ایران باید بسیار خاضع تر از این حرفها در برابر جهان باشه. یه مثال دیگه:‌گمان نمی‌کنم در هیچ جای جهان غیر از ایران مردمش فکر کنند که لبنان و حزب‌الله در جنگ سال ۲۰۰۶ پیروز شدند و اسرائیل شکست خورد. گمان نمی‌کنم کس دیگه‌ای فکر کنه که آواره شدن ۱ میلیون لبنانی و نابودی بیشتر زیربناهای اقتصادی و زندگی اونها موفقیت محسوب می‌شه. همون‌جور که عاجزیم از درک اینکه فلسطینی‌ها اقتصاد و نون شبشون وابسته به اقتصاد اسرائیله.&lt;br /&gt;۴)‌ آخرشم می‌رسیم به اینکه سرمایه در ایران چیزی نیست جز زمین و چیزی نداریم به جهان عرضه کنیم جز نفت. حتی تولید فرش هم انقدر گران شده که صادراتش نمی‌ارزه. این بابا آدام اسمیت دم از تجارت آزاد می‌زد منظورش کار و توانایی تولید بود نه حراج سرمایه‌های طبیعی. بازار در ایران به جای اینکه مردم رو به تولید اجناس و سرویس‌های مورد نیاز در آن زمان هدایت کنه، دولت رو به وارد کردن آنها مجبور می‌کنه.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;خب منم نق‌م اومده بود، حالا بهتره و می‌تونم برم سر کار.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-4674126140959298874?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/4674126140959298874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=4674126140959298874' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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Identity again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remembered how Obama in "Audacity of Hope" quoted the declaration of independence:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that     they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among     these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these     rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from     the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes     destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish     it, and to institute new Government&lt;/span&gt;" &lt;/blockquote&gt;And how he thought that these ideas define &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;what it means to be an American&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also remembered how in the controversial speech that Obama gave in AIPAC he too mentioned that &lt;span class="lingo_region"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;Israel's identity as a Jewish state must be preserved" and I also remembered the rhetoric about Israel's Identity crises and how  "the Palestinian womb" will eventually win.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From these two I really prefer the first; defining a nation and heritage based on a religion is boring! I still need to think about this more ...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-465801562806116081?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/465801562806116081/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=465801562806116081' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/465801562806116081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/465801562806116081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/06/identity.html' title='Identity'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-4978486323191063579</id><published>2008-06-19T18:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-19T18:13:07.680-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>سفر ایران ۱</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;احسان فکر کرد حالا که برگشته آمریکا اگه ازش برسیدند چه دیدی؟ می‌گوید ما رایت الا جمیلا! اما اینجا چیزه دیگه ای می‌نویسه:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ایران کشور ایزوله، ایران پر از رعب سیاسی، ایران پول فقط تو یه چیزه: زمین و اونم پشتش به نفته، ایران در پی حداقلها که آن‌هم دور از دسترسه، ایران پر از نق و نوق و تنبلی منتظر یک دیکتاتور قهرمان منجی یا اجنبی، ایران گذشته همیشه بهتر به نظر می‌رسه، ایران با مردمی با بالاترین تالرنس زور سیاسی، ایران راننده تاکسی و دکترش تحلیل سیاسی‌شون در یه حده، ایران با اصلاحاتی که تشنه‌ی فداکاری است، ایران بدون شناخت آماری از خود، ایران با قانون اساسی‌ای که در ۱۳۰ اصل از ۱۷۷ اصل آن کلمه اسلام آمده، ایران دوباره احتکار کنید، ایران «آقا دید تاریخی داشته باشید با یک انقلاب که همه چیز درست نمی‌شود»، ایران شلوغ و پر از حرف، ایران بدون رهبر، ایران بدترین جا برای شرکت زدن و پرورش یک ایده مگر اینکه اون شرکت ایده‌اش این باشه که زمین خرید و فروش کنه، ایران و رعب از رفتارهای غیرقابل پیش‌بینی نظام، ایران اگه همه‌ی دوستام برن چی؟ ایران جایی که هر چیز خوبی نتیجه عکس می‌دهد، ایران «تنها راه تفکر ترجمه است»، ایران «تنها راه تفکر درام و قصه است»، ایران خالی از دخالت نظری، ایران، نظام، دولت، رهبری، کدام؟ ایران هراسناک از طبقه ثروتمند و طبقه ثروتمند بی‌عرضه‌ تر از همه،  ایران سرزمین من&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-4978486323191063579?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/4978486323191063579/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=4978486323191063579' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/4978486323191063579'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/4978486323191063579'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.html' title='سفر ایران ۱'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-4286066407828293139</id><published>2008-05-21T20:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-21T20:40:54.927-07:00</updated><title type='text'>دیشب</title><content type='html'>دیشب چشمانم ، خاطره انگیز به احترام تو نشستند&lt;br /&gt;اما آن نارون احمق درمیانه شب به نور ماه چنان چنگ میزد&lt;br /&gt;گویی که در این التهاب  کسی بی غرض دست به زانو نمی گذارد&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-4286066407828293139?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/4286066407828293139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=4286066407828293139' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/4286066407828293139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/4286066407828293139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post.html' title='دیشب'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-6581515136848404193</id><published>2008-05-19T10:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-19T10:34:27.273-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daily'/><title type='text'>London's Calling!</title><content type='html'>Finally! I called London and asked for Meisam and he was there!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-6581515136848404193?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/6581515136848404193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=6581515136848404193' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6581515136848404193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6581515136848404193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/05/londons-calling.html' title='London&apos;s Calling!'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-254246412552619902</id><published>2008-05-06T21:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-06T22:52:18.917-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>Israel in EuroCup</title><content type='html'>Wouldn't have been funny if Israel would have qualified and was in one of the groups? The the question that "If Israel can play soccer in The European Cup shouldn't it be able to&lt;br /&gt;join The European Union?" would have gotten more color!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-254246412552619902?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/254246412552619902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=254246412552619902' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/254246412552619902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/254246412552619902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/05/israel-in-eurocup.html' title='Israel in EuroCup'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-7314378332329905843</id><published>2008-05-06T20:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-06T21:31:51.064-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>Representation without Taxation</title><content type='html'>Last night I thought of this phrase to describe the state of democracy in Iran. It's simply "the economy, stupid"; if people don't have an active financial role in the government and are not it's main source of financial support, they won't have a political role in it either. Sovereignty  flows from  Oil, not the people.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-7314378332329905843?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/7314378332329905843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=7314378332329905843' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/7314378332329905843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/7314378332329905843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/05/representation-without-taxation.html' title='Representation without Taxation'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-6555649434326335964</id><published>2008-05-03T18:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-03T18:49:14.481-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>Obama is Christian!</title><content type='html'>It's funny that one of the side effects of the whole reverend Wright's commotion is that now people know he's Christian and not a Muslim!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-6555649434326335964?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/6555649434326335964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=6555649434326335964' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6555649434326335964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6555649434326335964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/05/obama-is-christian.html' title='Obama is Christian!'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-8393119965002897365</id><published>2008-04-28T18:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T19:43:34.988-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thoughts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Privacy'/><title type='text'>The New Threat to Individual Rights</title><content type='html'>Senate passed the DNA &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g9PKo1Dr67gVSZWb-B4tOfMvmgDwD908E2D00"&gt;Privacy Act&lt;/a&gt; calling it "the first major new civil rights bill of the new century". When a law is passed it usually means that there was threat to a right and it needed protection. This act is another sign of how fragile right of privacy is in our age.  I remember reading this &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/11/terrorist.surveillance.ap/index.html"&gt;news&lt;/a&gt; and thinking how technology is forcing us to redefine privacy: "&lt;span class="hilite"&gt;Privacy&lt;/span&gt; no longer can mean anonymity ... Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people’s private communications and financial information." I still think that privacy is being able to reveal yourself selectively, in other words, information produced by my actions is my private property. I also still like the quote that "revealing privacy is a voluntary sacrifice" and I'm still not ready to give up my Forth Amendment right so that &lt;a href="http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9926899-7.html"&gt;FBI can implement&lt;/a&gt; a widespread monitoring of 'illegal' Internet activity.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-8393119965002897365?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/8393119965002897365/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=8393119965002897365' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/8393119965002897365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/8393119965002897365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-threat-to-individual-rights.html' title='The New Threat to Individual Rights'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-3145332321656607773</id><published>2008-04-28T10:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T10:47:49.083-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='No War on Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>Democracy without America</title><content type='html'>So I came up with this brilliant title not knowing that &lt;a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070901faessay86508/michael-mandelbaum/democracy-without-america.html"&gt;Michael &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.org/author/michael-mandelbaum/index.html"&gt;Mandelbaum&lt;/a&gt; already used it and quite frankly for a really good and mature article too. My initial thinking was that using an army to ameliorate the democratic conditions of a country is the equivalent of rejecting the primacy of liberty and recognizing the people as the sovereign and the highest form of authority. In a best scenario, democracy with America's might will become a collection of "do-gooders" (in the Jacksonian sense) that will have to limit liberty in favor of security neglecting the "competitive" nature of democracy at national and local levels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mandelbaum's article was much better! The question for him rooted from the seemingly paradoxical combination of spontaneous spread of democracy in the world contrasted against the failure of US democracy promotion in specific countries: "Why have the deliberate efforts of the world’s most powerful country to export its form of government proved ineffective?". But the real question for him was something else: "Why and how has democracy enjoyed such extraordinary worldwide success despite the failure of these efforts?"&lt;br /&gt;His answer starts at the definition of democracy itself; a combination of liberty and popular sovereignty. Economic liberty implies the inviolability of private property,  political liberty connotes the absence of government control of speech, assembly, and political participation and popular sovereignty refers to the tradition that the right to govern belongs not to hereditary monarchs but rather to the people they governed. But the crucial point is that democracy is the combination of these two concepts that protects the freedom of individuals from the government, the majority and special interest groups. Merge of these two concepts has always convinced me of the brilliance of the founding fathers and of course because of a vast available "space" they had an easier time than Europeans moving from a feudalistic regime to a democratic one. Anyway Mandelbaum concludes as a &lt;a href="http://www.stanford.edu/%7Eldiamond/iraq/WhaIsDemocracy012004.htm"&gt;Stanford lecturer&lt;/a&gt; did in a speech after occupation of Iraq that "Any country can hold an election, but for an election to be free and fair requires a lot of organization, preparation, and training of political parties, electoral officials, and civil society organizations who monitor the process. "&lt;br /&gt;The real question that Mandelbaum is concerned with is actually more interesting than the first one. He's surprised by the rate at which democracy spread in that last quarter of the century considering that it will take at least one generation for creating the social conditions conductive of liberty. His answer is simple: "The magic of the market"! The key to establishing a working democracy, and in particular the institutions of liberty, has been the free-market economy. Why? Simply because "the institution, skills and values needed to operate a free-market economy are those that,in the political sphere,constitute democracy". This argument alone was convincing for me when I thought about all the debates in Iran as which should take priority, political growth or economic growth. Mandelbaum's answer is neither if you adopt a free-market economy. He goes on to enumerate more arguments supporting his claim:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Private property, which is central to any market economy, is itself a form of liberty.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A successfully functioning market economy makes the citizens of the society in which it is established wealthier, and wealth implants democracy.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The free market generates the organizations and groups independent of the government that are known collectively as civil society, which is itself indispensable to a democratic political system&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The experience of participating in a free-market economy cultivates two habits that are central to democratic government: trust and compromise.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is easy to see what he would conclude from this analysis: "the best way to foster democracy is to encourage the spread of free markets" and that deliberate promotion of free market is unnecessary due to the fact that "the market will always take care of itself".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-3145332321656607773?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/3145332321656607773/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=3145332321656607773' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/3145332321656607773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/3145332321656607773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/04/democracy-without-america.html' title='Democracy without America'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-7121680686668933455</id><published>2008-04-25T12:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T19:44:15.880-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Quotes'/><title type='text'>He Who has Learned to Die ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt; Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The fact that Montaigne wrote &lt;a href="http://www.equilibrium.org/montaigne/essay17.html"&gt;this essay&lt;/a&gt; for the private use of his family makes it even more beautiful: "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Where death waits for us is uncertain; let us look for him everywhere. The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die, has unlearned to serve.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-7121680686668933455?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/7121680686668933455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=7121680686668933455' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/7121680686668933455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/7121680686668933455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/04/omnem-crede-diem-tibi-diluxisse.html' title='He Who has Learned to Die ...'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-5943917810531320580</id><published>2008-02-10T13:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T19:44:30.336-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daily'/><title type='text'>I Did It!</title><content type='html'>I like starting things more than finishing them. When you're starting there's more freedom involved but when u want to finish it it's more an like am obligation to bring it home. Anyway I'm so glad that I finished getting my master; I am free again to start something else!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-5943917810531320580?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/5943917810531320580/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=5943917810531320580' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/5943917810531320580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/5943917810531320580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-like-starting-things-more-than.html' title='I Did It!'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-1224001719645496682</id><published>2008-02-07T13:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T19:44:58.047-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daily'/><title type='text'>Democracy in Action</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;I was quite excited about today and the election and the idea of supporting a fellow like Obama as the president.&lt;/p&gt;It was nice that you would set the general tone of the country by selecting a nominee for your party and in the same time make a real and local decision about the funding of ur local public school and community college.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-1224001719645496682?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/1224001719645496682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=1224001719645496682' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/1224001719645496682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/1224001719645496682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-was-quite-excited-about-today-and.html' title='Democracy in Action'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-2914347136771433763</id><published>2008-02-07T13:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T19:52:49.266-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daily'/><title type='text'>Habbeh ...</title><content type='html'>The lord giveth and the lord taketh away. Its so easy to accept this comment even when you don't believe in a lord.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-2914347136771433763?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/2914347136771433763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=2914347136771433763' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2914347136771433763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2914347136771433763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/02/lord-giveth-and-lord-taketh-away.html' title='Habbeh ...'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-3831476510533303195</id><published>2008-01-28T01:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T22:00:22.781-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='No War on Iran'/><title type='text'>Another Campaign of Misinformation</title><content type='html'>A week ago or so an independent &lt;a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/default.aspx"&gt;organization &lt;/a&gt;published a report that in a nutshell showed how "made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq" (see the full &lt;a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/WarCard/"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;) and how they "waged a carefully orchestrated campaign of misinformation". When I read it I was stunned on how an administration can pull something like this and not only have American's fooled but the whole world. It's things like this that remind us "we really won the cold war" and how America is unchallenged. The article suggests at the end that it remains for us to answer these familiar questions "What did they know, and when did they know it?".&lt;br /&gt;Imagine having read such report and then seeing this &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/27/saddam.cbs/index.html"&gt;story&lt;/a&gt; and the actual &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/24/60minutes/main3749494_page4.shtml"&gt;60 Minutes&lt;/a&gt; where an FBI agent who reported directly to Bush said "It was very important for him to project [that Iraq possessed WMD] because that was what kept him, in his mind, in power. That capability kept the Iranians away. It kept them from reinvading Iraq". It makes you wonder why such wordings made it to CNN's front page and if we are already in the middle of another campaign of misinformation about the threat of Iran.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-3831476510533303195?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/3831476510533303195/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=3831476510533303195' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/3831476510533303195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/3831476510533303195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/01/week-ago-or-so-independent-organization.html' title='Another Campaign of Misinformation'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-2408690773951444901</id><published>2008-01-21T10:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T19:47:11.971-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daily'/><title type='text'>Two Sick Friends Better than One!</title><content type='html'>There's something romantic about getting sick together and you feel feelings that breaks the day to day experiences ...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-2408690773951444901?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/2408690773951444901/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=2408690773951444901' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2408690773951444901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2408690773951444901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/01/there-something-romantic-about-getting.html' title='Two Sick Friends Better than One!'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-6425981515293121710</id><published>2008-01-20T23:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T19:52:04.637-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daily'/><title type='text'>Habbeh ...</title><content type='html'>Today was his anniversary and for some reason I wanted to write the writing on the card that she got for Habbeh: What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A heartfelt sympathy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-6425981515293121710?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/6425981515293121710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=6425981515293121710' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6425981515293121710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6425981515293121710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/01/today-was-anniversary-of-it-and-for.html' title='Habbeh ...'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-1557253396338555808</id><published>2008-01-20T23:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T19:52:27.526-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daily'/><title type='text'>Me and Blogger</title><content type='html'>So I'm using Blogger now! And the main reason is because I can post an entry using my phone. The PersianBlog achieve are still available right  where they  where: &lt;a class="links" href="http://www.ehsoonha.com/archives-persianblog/archives.html"&gt; Persian Blog Archives.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-1557253396338555808?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/1557253396338555808/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=1557253396338555808' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/1557253396338555808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/1557253396338555808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/01/so-im-using-blogger-now-and-main-reason.html' title='Me and Blogger'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-5133441278428108413</id><published>2008-01-20T12:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T19:53:47.283-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>American Exceptionalism</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;One theme that has not changed during the course of &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;America&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;'s history is the "American exceptionalism". An example of it is T.R. &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fellow-Americans-Important-Presidents-Washington/dp/1402200277/ref=pd_sim_b_img_5"&gt;"The New Nationalism"&lt;/a&gt; speech:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"The history of &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;America&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; is now the central feature of the history of the world; for the world has set its face hopefully toward our democracy."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And he goes on saying how each of us carries the burden of the world in addition to our country. It's what some call the secular version of "Citty upon the Hill" of the Puritans. I guess if you follow this through the “New World Order” and now to “Promoting Democracy” you can reach the same point as Bush did when before invading Iraq in 2003 and &lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030317-7.html"&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;:(the quote is a bit out of context but I still like it this way) “This is not a question of authority, it is a question of will.” America is the Citty upon the Hill and everyone is "strongly encouraged" to improve themselves by emulating  her.  I see the world going in this direction and is it bad you ask? No; it's only natural to follow the winner! Imagine the new world order that Russia would have established had they won the cold war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-5133441278428108413?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/5133441278428108413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=5133441278428108413' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/5133441278428108413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/5133441278428108413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/01/one-theme-that-has-not-changed-during.html' title='American Exceptionalism'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-4312366751178743103</id><published>2008-01-19T22:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T19:55:38.410-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What Do We Need? Sex!</title><content type='html'>When somebody asks me what does my generation of Iranian need, my answer is simple: sex. I mean it the same way that Freud did but I'm too lazy to explain it the same way.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-4312366751178743103?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/4312366751178743103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=4312366751178743103' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/4312366751178743103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/4312366751178743103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/01/when-somebosy-asks-me-what-does-my.html' title='What Do We Need? Sex!'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-6793649574809116135</id><published>2008-01-19T22:41:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T19:58:54.474-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daily'/><title type='text'>What does it Mean to be an Iranian?</title><content type='html'>We're getting coffee now right after seeing Persepolis; great movie! It was full of little quirks that I almost enjoyed all of them. It made me think again: what does it mean to be an Iranian?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sent via BlackBerry by AT&amp;amp;T&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-6793649574809116135?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/6793649574809116135/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=6793649574809116135' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6793649574809116135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/6793649574809116135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/01/we-getting-coffee-now-right-after.html' title='What does it Mean to be an Iranian?'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-1979258300131203668</id><published>2008-01-19T14:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T19:59:27.331-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>After 9/11 somebody said we don't need martyrs we need heroes. Iran doesn't need a 9/11 for this to be true.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-1979258300131203668?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/1979258300131203668/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=1979258300131203668' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/1979258300131203668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/1979258300131203668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/01/after-911-somebody-said-we-don-need.html' title=''/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-97896724886755244</id><published>2008-01-18T21:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T20:00:12.342-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>In that Way Lies Ruin!</title><content type='html'>There was a sentence in one of the speeches in my all time favorite shoe West Wing that went something like this "government to be an instrument of good, where everyone comes together and no one is left behind" well I can just say that in that way lies ruin! I also didn't like the fact that a character in the show said it that he's suppose to morally superior and when I think about it more, really that's all that this sentiment is good for. I'm mentioning this because the election atmosphere has me thinking of rationalizing what can make Iran something again. Time and time again I come to this fact that we, instead of following the simple but powerful slogan of "get capital" find ourselves relying on other powers; most notably a dysfunctional government.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-97896724886755244?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/97896724886755244/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=97896724886755244' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/97896724886755244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/97896724886755244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/01/there-was-sentence-in-one-of-speeches.html' title='In that Way Lies Ruin!'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-4275476548017008682</id><published>2008-01-18T03:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T20:01:06.233-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daily'/><title type='text'>My Linguistic Potentials!</title><content type='html'>I love this feature that I can publish a post by sending an email from my hand held device!&lt;p&gt;So today I was thinking of studying law; not to become a lawyer but because in the process I can give realization to my linguistic potentials.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sent via BlackBerry by AT&amp;amp;T&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-4275476548017008682?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/4275476548017008682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=4275476548017008682' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/4275476548017008682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/4275476548017008682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-love-this-feature-that-i-can-publish.html' title='My Linguistic Potentials!'/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-1453341415494565872</id><published>2008-01-11T02:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-11T02:40:28.715-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>One thing to look into is Bushes visit to Israel as a governor and how it's related to him getting elected as a president!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-1453341415494565872?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-2632391599576350956</id><published>2007-09-29T22:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-29T22:54:08.608-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thoughts'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>We can only think about what we know.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-2632391599576350956?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/2632391599576350956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=2632391599576350956' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2632391599576350956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/2632391599576350956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2007/09/we-can-only-think-about-what-we-know.html' title=''/><author><name>Ehsoonha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-1018233063515353426</id><published>2007-09-29T22:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-29T22:53:34.286-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thoughts'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>We're at a point in history where future is as strange as the past.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-1018233063515353426?l=ehsoonha.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/feeds/1018233063515353426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6137366&amp;postID=1018233063515353426' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/1018233063515353426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6137366/posts/default/1018233063515353426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ehsoonha.blogspot.com/2007/09/were-at-point-in-history-where-future.html' 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