Time’s Fond Farewell For Fadlallah

It’s that time of the year when magazines wish a “fond farewell” to the VIPs and celebrities who died in 2010. Mine are primarily for Leslie Nielsen, Gary Coleman and George Steinbrenner.

But the way Time magazine frames its two-paragraph obituary for Hezbollah’s Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah is off the deep end. The man’s final fatwa before dying authorized suicide bombers.

Here’s a more appropo 14-character headline: Good Riddance.

A penny for Octavia Nasr‘s thoughts . . .