Now that drivel is up and running again (thanks to Brady's magical linux skills), I can post what i was going to say the other day about Arafat's death. For a while there, he was being Schroedinger's terrorist.
Schroedinger had a theory (referred to as Schroedinger's cat) that if you put a cat in a box with a device that had a 50/50 chance of killing it, the cat was neither alive nor dead until you opened the box to see (this was in the context of quantum physics, which really do not make much sense). Arafat, after entering France, was (according to the news, at least) both alive and dead at the same time, with the extra state of 'braindead' thrown in to boot. We weren't sure he was really dead until he was removed from the box… er, France.
Well, I thought it was an amusing analysis of the situation. It just sounds dumb when I have to explain it though.
Hey, it's my blog. If you want things that are amusing and make sense, go somewhere else!