"A reader noticed something curious in a video from last night's "NBC Nightly News." Richard Engel, the network's Beirut bureau chief, is reporting from southern Lebanon, and at 1:07 in the video, as he's saying, "In Sidon, we found part of the financial district flattened," you briefly see an image of what look like uncut sheets of U.S. hundred-dollar bills.

Now, it's possible to buy uncut sheets from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at premiums ranging from 12.5% to 275% over face value--but apparently only in denominations of up to $50. Anyhow, somehow we doubt these were collectibles. [ Oh, what a giveaway! Massive counterfeiting here. A few thousand rockets there. What could there possibly be to worry about? Did I forget to mention that there's no difference between these lunatics (look up the origin of that word and then take a careful look at the banner of Islam) and a suicidally depressed Mafia with a military budget? -ed. ] "