James Loses Two Good Lines

Taranto may need new material:

Generalissimo Francisco Franco may still be dead, but we aren't sure about Yasser Arafat. Various reports have the Palestinian Arab thug, who is in a Paris hospital, either brain-dead, in a coma or completely defunct. In any case, it doesn't sound as though he has much time left, which means we've just about run out the string on "Arafat won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994."
First we lose "the haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by the way served in Vietnam," and now this. For this column at least, it's been a rough week.

I would rather you have to find new material than the opposite, buddy.