Confessions of a Grandma

I urge everyone to read Ronnie Bennett's post for today.  You can find it here . Egypt has started something.  The countries that have followed may not be so lucky as to bring about as peaceful a revolution, but revolution is definitely in the air. Anyone who has read the grievances that the Egyptian people were expressing--unemployment, rising prices, an increasing divide between the wealthiest and the middle class, etc.--really must be struck by the similarities with the economic situation in our own country. Honestly, does anyone have one of those cheese hats left over from football season?  I'd wear one now.

Egypt's Mubarak has resigned .  Now we wait to see what will happen next. "Egyptians have inspired us, and they've done so by putting the lie to the idea that justice is best gained by violence," Obama said. "For Egypt, it was the moral force of nonviolence, not terrorism, not mindless killing, but nonviolence, moral force, that bent the arc of history toward justice once more." Let's hope that what follows this arc of justice and moral force will continue to be without violence to the world. And what about the very powerful role technology has played in bringing about this revolution? The seemingly unmovable president was finally toppled by an uprising that grew from small groups of young activists organizing on the Internet. Google manager Wael Ghonim, 30 -- who set up a popular protest page on Facebook and is now seen as one of the revolution's figureheads -- told CNN that he wanted to thank Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for supplying t...