While my friend AllahPundit is getting over the recent Alex Rodriguez trade and what it means for his beloved Crimson Jihad, he did take the time to include this tidbit in a recent news roundup: bq. "[A] radical experiment in governance was inaugurated: Iran, with its 2,500-year history of monarchy, would be ruled by men of religion. The democratic winds of the revolution had been overwhelmed by Persia's traditional authoritarianism. The king would wear a turban. A quarter century afterward, last summer, I stood near a major Tehran intersection watching a cleric attempting to hail a taxi. None would stop for him. Classic.