Double trouble There are some funny goings on in the Gulf at the moment. The first is political and the second is environmental. The Saudi ambassador to the United States is making an exit out of Washington so fast it's more than a little unseemly and only a year into the job as well. An exit such as this from such a plum job can only mean one thing: Something's up in Saudi.

It's not stuff going up in Dubai that's the problem it the rain coming down. The Gulf, think deserts, cloudless blue sky, occassional sand storm not flooding like this.  ¶ 6:28 pm