AP illustrates the fun one can have with juxtaposition, especially when it’s a non sequitur:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to volatile Lebanon on Friday to encourage a new democratic government outside Syrian control and better relations between the two Mideast countries.
Hours after Rice left the city, witnesses said an explosion rocked a busy street of restaurants and bars in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut.
“We would like to see the day when there are good neighborly relations between Syria and Lebanon based on mutual respect and equality,” Rice said at a joint news conference with Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Foud Saniora earlier in the day.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the city where this asinine story was written, someone was undoubtedly murdered. Please, gentle reader, infer what you will that I included the two things in the same sentence.
