Well, the powder keg is starting to explode. Benazhir Bhutto has been shot and/or blown up (order not yet determined). We are not proud of our initial reaction, which took on a decidedly neo-con bent: That these motherf***ers are crazy and that maybe more extreme and draconian measures are called for (although we will stop short of saying that "it's Giuliani time"). Come to think of it, this plays right into Musharraf's hands-- he gets to get rid of one political opponent, and use it as fodder against the others. One has to wonder how hard he was trying to protect her.
It also made us question why, after ten years of relative comfort in England, one would want to come back to a place where one could be exchanged for 72 virgins at any moment.
(We understand that whole "pull-of-home" concept, but had a hard time just showing up for Christmas.)
Could parallels be made with the tiger mauling in San Francisco, especially with the speculation that the deceased may have taunted the tiger by dangling his leg over the fence?
(Editor's note-- We almost scooped the NY Times (they just updated their headlines))
