Monday, November 08, 2004

 
"By Allah, I falafel!"
Or: "Let me be Franco"
Or: "Dhimminishing" Returns?

Arafat's wife(wonder what share the Sharia grants to a Christian spouse)and his "Deputies" are apparently wrangling over the appointment of an executioner of the estate....
So far, no luck Googling confirmation, but vaguely recall an interview of Oriana Fallaci, probably in *Playboy* magazine or *The New York Review of Books(when I wuz shacked up with a bolshevik), about a quarter of a century ago, in which she claimed that Arafat was a homosexual. Jeepers, one hopes that "Palestinians" qualify for reduced rates on anti-retroviral drugs. -Even if not, Yasser is rumored not to be penniless and can surely afford the best French medical care that Saddam's influence can buy. OF also claimed something to the effect that Libya's Momar Khadafi's stupidity was visible in his little bitty eyes.
Hard pounding this: keeping up a bedside vigilantism. If the PLO chief clings to this side of the divide from his reward of what might be 72 Roy Cohns much longer, after he finally croaks we may be treated to something like the old Franco bit of Saturday Night Live- "This breaking news just in: Chairman Arafat still dead." Also, I think it was Chevy Chase who described the corpse of Chairman Mao lying in state on "a bed of rice....Moo Goo Gai Dead." -now hoping for "I, Falafel."