It is August, and you can tell it is August when the WSJ uses a Reuters video of lettuce wearing PETA-hired actresses to manufacture novelty news from Tokyo. Convince the Japanese to give up meat for vegetables? Japan is a fish-eating culture. Strange doings. The bystanders look to have enjoyed the silliness. When the world focus is a PETA news clip, it is safer for a few minutes. August continues a month noted for violent turns of the table. Coups in Russia are useful. Right now, there looks to be the making of a coup in Tehran, and this time the Ahmadinejad Twelver cult will win.  Does Ahmadinejad look like a vegetarian to you?  More a lamb eater, yeah?