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Thursday, February 17, 2011

What Are Those Things For Again?

One Martin Peretz, typing in something called The New Republic, must have had a complex migraine or something while typing.
There was an Amos Biderman cartoon in Tuesday’s Ha’aretz called “the facebook revolution.” Here it is:
The unidentified faces sitting around a table of officials include King Abdullah of Jordan and the monarch with the same name who, in his feeble dotage, reigns in Saudi Arabia, Col. Qaddafi of Libya, Dr. Ahmadinejad of Iran, and a few men I do not recognize. The chairman of the motley gathering seems to be Bashar Assad of Syria. He puts a pregnant query to his colleagues: “What are we going to do about that damn Zuckerberg?”
Or he wasn't wearing his glasses & didn't realize those were more than cheerful splotches of color on the table in front of the unidentified.*

Remind us to bookmark this Peretz fellow. We may need to steal more informed comment on this whole Mid-Eastern mess.

*Of course, Marty can't tell them any of them apart anyway, if you know what we mean. Oh, & the answers are: Yemen (Pres. Salih) Iran, Jordan, Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Algeria (Pres. Bouteflika) & Morocco (King Mohammed VI).
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1 comment:

  1. Morbo18 February, 2011 07:33

    I've always had a soft spot for Libya's flag. "Hmmm, I think it needs more green. You know what? Fuck it, make the whole thing green."

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