re my last post:

i later realized that the shots i heard were 'celebratory gunfire', a concept that has never ceased to amuse me: if things are going badly, shoot your gun; if things are going well, shoot your gun too!

People were celebrating because, 48 hours after Saad Hariri said that he would not negotiate with a gun to pointed at his head, the government met Hizbullah's demands and revoked it's decisions vis-a-vis the communications network and the airport official.

Hassan Nasrallah is holding a press conference at 4. My tennis match that was scheduled for that time has been canceled because of the anticipated 'celebratory gunfire' (last week a bullet ricocheted through a window and blew out one of the glass panels surrounding the court...).

Obviously, vastly more important than my ruined sports plans is the fact that 'celebratory gunfire' also kills, because of that thing called gravity.

"How many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?"