re: #2 Killgore Trout

This article is making the rounds on lefty sites:
Don’t Fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

Ugh. This does not make me feel better about the protests,

From the article… and answer to margiemoons (I think it was her question) about ElBaradei and MB…

Egypt’s new opposition leader, former International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei, has formed a loose alliance with the Brotherhood because he knows it is the only opposition group that can mobilize masses of Egyptians, especially the poor. He says he can work with it to change Egypt. Many scholars of political Islam also judge the Brotherhood is the most reasonable face of Islamic politics in the Arab world today. Skeptics fear ElBaradei will be swept along by more radical forces.