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Exploding Pagers Injure Hundreds of Hezbollah Members

BEIRUT—Pagers carried by thousands of Hezbollah operatives exploded at about the same time Tuesday afternoon, leaving more than 2,700 injured and eight dead in an unprecedented event that struck across Lebanon.

The affected pagers were from a new shipment that the group received in recent days, people familiar with the matter said. A Hezbollah official said hundreds of fighters had such devices, speculating that malware may have caused the devices to explode. The official said some people felt the pagers heat up and disposed of them before they burst.

UPDATE: FWIW’s foreign affairs correspondent in New Mexico has an upbeat view of how all this will work out, eventually. That’s an optimism I don’t share, because I believe the there is no possible solution to the conflict short of mutual annihilation — Israel will not agree to commit suicide, the Palestinians, Iranians, et al won’t stop short of Israel’s complete destruction and erasure from the fce of the earth, so … boom.

But we’ll hope that the view from the mountain tops is better than here.