Doggone Mullahs!

Even though our household currently has no pets, canine or otherwise, my wife and I do consider ourselves to be dog lovers.  At this time, our respective routines and schedules would not allow us to give pets the attention they need and deserve.

But one need not be an active cynophile to understand the significance of the ongoing efforts by the Iranian government to ban or otherwise restrict the keeping of dogs as pets.

This tells me all that I need to know about the regime in Teheran (though it cannot be said that I didn't already have a clue).

Those who abuse dogs will usually go on to abuse people.

Boston Kabuki Theatrics

Okay, as anyone who is not apoplectic now knows, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston bombing terrorist, has been apprehended.  The lockdown of Boston and vicinity is now lifted, and life can go on substantially as normal (though the victims and their families will surely have quite a challenge in achieving any degree of normalcy).

 

Hindsight is always 20:20.  I shall not dwell upon whether the lockdown needed to be as extensive as it was.

 

I will, however, note that the lockdown may well have served as a training exercise for the authorities, federal, state or local, who now have a better idea of the practical aspects of locking down Boston -- or any other city.

 

And while this particular lockdown was employed in order to achieve a very noble and vital purpose, I cannot help but be concerned that it may well serve as an operations manual for the next citywide lockdown -- which may well be for purposes other than the promotion and extension of the personal freedoms we in America like to believe we cherish.