BRAIN HAEMORRHAGE NO LAUGHING MATTER

"[Arial Sharon's stroke] is very sad on a human level and totally negative on a political level," Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said. “Let's hope for a miracle".

Very what on a what level? Let’s hope for a what? If this is sarcasm it’s in very poor taste at a time when poor Arik lies bleeping on a life-support machine, drooling fluids out of his nostrils. Still don’t really get the Italian sense of humour.

Mind you, I thought Bush was joking when he invaded Iraq. “Very amusing,” I thought, “an ironic take on the macho myth.” Then he was all, “We gonna bring democracy to the Middle East, and I’m like, “Good God, I had no idea you were serious.”


Drooling fluids