While We Were Otherwise Occupied . . .

Something like 12 out of my last 14 posts have dealt with Tunisia. Over the three day holiday weekend I kept right on blogging. In the meantime, off in the margins:

1. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon, whose investigation has been hovering like a Sword of Damocles over the country for months, actually submitted its indictments yesterday.
2. For the first time in the post-colonial era, a major part of an Arab country is about to secede, with unforeseen results.
3. The Labor Party's man in the Israeli coalition, Ehud Barak, is quitting the Labor Party and starting his own.

That's not even all of it. Stay tuned. I'll keep going but actually have to do the day job some on Tuesday now that we're back.