Weather Forecast

The ceasefire in Lebanon seems to be holding up (for the moment), and Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has declared victory for the Jihadists:

We are today before a strategic, historic victory, without exaggeration.

Much as it pains me to admit it, he's probably right.

"There's an east wind coming, Watson."

"I think not, Holmes. It is very warm."

"Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow.