Welcome Abu Kais

I’m going to be out of town for a little while and will probably not be able to blog at my usual pace. Last time I was out of town, when I drove from the East Coast to the West Coast, I convinced myself that I could still keep up this Web site, but I couldn’t. So I won’t make the same mistake now.
Abu Kais, who writes the terrific blog From Beirut to the Beltway, will help me out. Good timing, too, since Lebanon is (tragically) a “story” again. Abu Kais is a Shia from South Lebanon, from Hezbollah country. He is not, however, even remotely a Hezbollah partisan.
Please welcome him and enjoy his reports. And be nice in the comments.
Thanks, Abu Kais, for lending a hand.