OK, so Lebanon doesn't suck as much as I say it does, and this coming from educated Arab overachievers. I felt like answering that vortex stretching, an essential process in 3D turbulence, is not allowed in 2D flows, therefore quenching the forward energy cascade and replacing it with an inverse cascade , but I bit my tongue. If the points are trivial, then maybe that's OK too if by reading the log someone remembers that there is a place called Lebanon where stuff happens. And if this column has absolutely no other use at all, it allows me to say think about the stuff that happens, be it positive or negative. Posters of Hariri and Berry are constantly coming up and the peons putting them up actually get into knife fights with each other over a stupid picture.
People are happy with the status-quo, and no one is working for change.
It's a fine line we walk, between those on our side and those trying to make our lives difficult. This is not completely true because some texans are not as bad as they look. In Lebanon, administrators are much more important. They sway with the political climate. For instance, you get treated well if the general political mood is positive.