IM conversation with an Iraqi friend now living in New York:
Friend: are u following spitzer’s resignation now
Friend: ?
Friend: crazy
Cyrus Farivar: yeah
Friend: cool
Friend: his wife is so pissed
Friend: man that’s so cool
Friend: they just resign like that
Friend: when they make awful mistakes
Cyrus Farivar: why is that cool?
Friend: in iraq
Friend: that never happened
Friend: no one resigned
Friend: no matter what they did
Friend: they outlived the people
Friend: i’m relishing the democratic process
Friend: kind of inhaling democracy
