Even though my long distance bill has exploded because of my marathon calls to the fiery pit, I must not have the clout there I thought I did.

"Idi Amin came out of coma on Wednesday and is no longer using an artificial respirator. But he's still in intensive care and his condition is still serious," a source at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah told Reuters on Thursday.

Or, as Taranto put it,

"The admissions office in hell must've gotten backed up when Uday and Qusay arrived."