FDD’s Walid Phares notes this poster of Assad father and son, and the allusion to an old Madonna song. Walid notes: “This is what the Baathists are facing now in Lebanon.”

As others have pointed out (Jonah the other day, if memory serves) during the Cold War, Xerox machines were revolutionary weapons. Now it’s blogs and Blackberries — but also Walkmen and iPods.

Also, check out the latest from Claudia Rosett in Beirut.