meanwhile, out in the wider world:
in egypt there's continued angst about the direction the revolution is heading in...there's good reason for concern, too. lately there's been a spate of overviews on the order of these:
Al-Ahram Weekly | Opinion | Explaining the slow pace of change
7 Popular Myths about the Revolution
which are interesting i think. complicated situation. lots of uncertainty. there's a sizable demo in tahrir square today
that we are all khaled said refers to as a "day of purification"---the demo is a way to keep pressure on the existing government to continue getting rid of ndp people, to continue dismantling the mubarak-period oligarchy of which they are part.
as an aside, this is a quite lovely 5 minute clip shot a week ago today at tahrir: