The Wages of Insomnia. The condition does have its advantages. Just saw the news of Abdul Rantisi's most welcome liquidation on CNN. The racist hypocrisy, hand-wringing, and morally reprehensible condemnations are thick on the ground already. My favorite was British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who called the killing of terrorists by security forces "unlawful". He is apparently forgetting that the British SAS spent most of the 1980s machine-gunning every IRA terrorist they could get their hands on. Those damn double standards again...