Pajamas and blogging: a match made in Heaven! In this case, Baghdad. Omar explains.
Meanwhile, Egyptian Ghaly ribs state-run media's silence in the weeks after Iraq's National Assembly vote:
Why are they afraid of Iraq's elections? Are they afraid to show that America's plan might look as if it is working? Are they afraid lest people recognize that they were ranting on the wrong side ever since Saddam's statue fell? Or are they afraid to show that yesterday’s winners did not win by 99.99999%?
I suspect that, after countries have been freed and wounds have healed, the Near East's 20th-Century dictators and their stooges will the butt of many a joke.