Safe journey, Nora, et al. It's good to see (in FB) that the feline contingent are doing so well.

Nora, the time change is somewhere between Knoxville and Nashville, but after Chattanooga.

Strasburg--> Chattanooga leg today.

Aw, wave as you're passing to our west!

nota bene: bullies suck. I am in angry-mama-bear mode.

Anyone heard about this? Save the Life of Kiana Firouz

Kiana Firouz, 27 years old, is an outspoken Iranian LGBT rights activist, filmmaker, and actress. When clips of her video documentary work featuring the struggle and persecution of gays and lesbians in her country were acquired by Iranian intelligence, agents began to follow Firouz around Tehran, harassing and intimidating her. She fled for England where she could safely continue her work and studies.

She plays a starring role in Cul de Sac, a documentary film produced in the UK about the condition of lesbians in Iran, and based heavily on Firouz’s own life story. Directed by Ramin Goudarzi-Nejad and Mahshad Torkan, the movie will premiere in London in a few days. Since the trailer was posted on YouTube in December 2009, Cul de Sac has attracted global media attention, with thousands of views. Apparently, some of those views included members of Ahmadinejad’s puppet media in Iran. They know who Firouz is and what she stands for. They want her to come back to the country she was born in to answer for it.

Firouz, understandably, has requested asylum from the British government. Much to everyone’s shock and dismay, the British Home Office has rejected her application for refugee status. Yes, they know she’s gay. Yes, they know she could deported back to Iran at any time, and that if this happens, Firouz will most likely be sentenced to torture and death after being found guilty of the “unspeakable sin of homosexuality” because she has participated in explicit lesbian sex scenes in the movie, and been a fierce proponent for human rights in her country.

More:

Campaign to save the life of Kiana Firouz at risk of deportation from the U.K.

Wave south when you go through Chattanooga. The time changes at the state line, so when you hit Chattanooga, you're in CST.

tommyrot, thanks for that link.

East Tennessee is on Eastern Standard Time. My friend G. is in Chattanooga and we're in the same time zone.

Cash, I know! Even Dan Patrick teases him about the "porn mustache" Murrow is such the better role model than Ron Burgundy. Gives hope to anyone whose mother said we would grow into our looks, I tell you what! And he is *so* sad he won't get to talk about "Prime Minister Balls" because, in his erudite way, he's twelve like that.

Hivemind:

I'm translating something wrong here, so I can't find it on my own: what's the exact quote that says that what is good is beautiful?