So I’m pushing the stroller down Tejon this morning—keeping a brisk pace in order to optimize my calorie burn and sculpt my calves—when suddenly I’m confronted by a pair of vicious chihuahuahs who’d managed to free themselves by digging a tiny tunnel under a municipal fence. Their being little more than bald and noisy rats, I was able to fight them off easily with a handful of decorative landscaping stones
July 19, 2006
July 19, 2006
Overheard inside a Beirut bunker, Wednesday, July 19
First Hezbollah militant: “Have you heard the latest buzz, brother?”* Second Hezbollah militant: First Hezbollah militant: “Evidently, we great warriors of Allah may soon be met by the unified muscle of the world.” Second Hezbollah militant: First Hezbollah militant: “In the form of—hold on to your bandana—UN peace-keeping troops.” Second Hezbollah militant: First Hezbollah militant: “Who, it is said, will police southern Lebanon and protect the interests of the ‘legitimate’
July 19, 2006
Another moment of unabashed pragmatism
Sometimes, when I don’t feel much like posting, I simply don’t. Whereas other times? You get crap like this. One of us is going to have to learn to deal with it.
July 19, 2006
BREAKING: Small number of Israeli troops enter southern Lebanon (UPDATED)
And so it begins… Via MSNBC, Dan Gillerman, Israeli Ambassador to the UN, tells Rita Cosby, “We will not occupy Lebanon,” but he notes nevertheless that Israel will do everything in its power to break the backs of Hezbollah. See also, Youssef Ibrahim in USA Today, “Finally, it seems, Iran has overplayed its hand”: The attempt by Hezbollah and Hamas to drag the whole Arab world into their war with