Thursday is Eid here in Turkey, and in most of the rest of the world. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the usual nonsense continues. After the triumph of science last year, the science minister and information minister have changed portfolios, and the new minister, a particularly unimpressive son of a great poet, hastily announced that the phases of the moon are not the concern of science.
Meanwhile, in Palestine a third intifada seems ready to begin. At last it’s starting to cut through in the news, though largely because Hamas started throwing rockets like confetti.