The End of Gaddafi

In case you were in a blackout all weekend, it’s say to say that Gaddafi’s regime officially toppled over the weekend… probably. (No one’s quite ready to say it.) The pictures and video are amazing! Still everyone (everyone being “all the people who are not skirmishing in the streets of Tripoli”) keeps hedging, because no one’s been sure all night where Gaddafi himself is. (I know where he is: in an extremely long and entirely gold-lined emergency escape tunnel. The other end is surely either in Malta or Crete.)

My favorite update from the awesome Al-Jazeera? “Police have surrounded the Libyan embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, after a number of people entered the building and threw pictures of Muammar Gaddafi out the window.” You know stuff is bad when the Bosnians are harshing on you. Another favorite update is that the “National Transitional Council,” which is a terrible name for the “rebel governing body,” announced a free Libya via mass text. What a time we live in! In any event, Gaddafi’s sons are in jail and this is an incredible day and there’s a party all over the world and you should be glued to the TV, unless you’re busy routing armed Gaddafi loyalists.