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"Humor is a funny way of being serious"
-Thomas Edison
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Monday, September 26, 2005
SCOOBY-DOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU?
"Unfortunately, we are facing some kind of a ghost..." - Lebanese Interior Minister Hassan Sabaa on Sunday's attempted murder of LBC journalist May Chidiac - the thirteenth bombing in Lebanon since February. To the Minister’s credit, at least he lives here. Some of the country’s top political figures have practically set up a government in exile in Europe where they’re hiding out for security reasons – including the Defense Minister and parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri. Still, I think it’s a good swap – the half dozen or so of them for General Aoun, who came back from exile in Paris last May.Nobody wants them to put themselves in harms way (besides, it’s not as if their presence here would make any difference) but one cant’ hold a position of responsibility in one country but live in another – especially if you’re the Defense Minister (what kind of defense is that – does he have one of those remote alarms?).
12:00 pm
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