i guess i'm in mega-blog-mode today, my 51st birthday. hard to believe i've survived, but here i am.

anyway, i might point out that the story everyone has been pursuing is how the iran regime cannot control info in the age of facebook, twitter, youtube. but it's hard not to notice that cnn today just basically does not know what's happening on the streets, other than that perhaps the crackdown has come. but they're not confident even on that. explosion at the tomb of khomeini? what's happening? who knows, exactly? the crackdown on media, in other words, has been basically effective, and we won't know what's happening until it's over, if then. and the people of iran, also, probably are in the regime-generated fog.