PROCÈS-VERBAL

How I spend my day off. I do some housekeeping here at home as well as on the various places on the web where I reside. A little organization to make life easier. It’s a regularly recurring task, because I normally use three browsers: one for news, another for blogs, and a third to touch base with various online foreign policy journals.

Using multiple tabs, opening a browser is an exercise in patience for me.

Later on today, I’ll scroll through the twenty or so studies and white papers I downloaded last night. My idea of a fun time.

One thing I did was to gather all my news links into one place so Firefox opens a bit faster than it did: my *Daily Readswas the target of some cleanup. Hopefully, while the rest of the political blogosphere moans and groans over things like the failed debt limit vote in the House (why this is news isn’t exactly clear to me, the GOP telegraphed their intentions months ago and the markets have ignored the kabuki), I will attempt a quick news roundup of stories of note which go unremarked in the lefty blogosphere:
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One step forward, one step back. It seems that reports that the Supreme Military Council in Egypt was as eager to crush the peaceful protests in Tahrir Square could very well been true, that the thugs are still hard at work suppressing dissent.

Freedom House reports that Maikel Nabil Sanad, and Egyptian blogger has been arrested:

by Egyptian military police on March 28 on charges that he allegedly defamed the armed forces

To the generals running Egypt: civil societies are NOT subject to military discipline. Military enrollment is a contract under which an enlistee agrees to accept such discipline. Civilians, by definition, have not agreed to accept being treated like raw recruits. That’s their job.

One wonders when they’ll get that. One also wonders when our own officials will understand that expanding military and police powers does exactly the same damned thing.
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