All you need to know, Lileks edition

LILEKS (James) The Bleat All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

Odd mutterings

I must have missed this opera. Odds, ends If John Kerry were an opera, he’d be The Barber of Nothing I Say is True.