Ok a personal note, these days I do history

[nadinbrzezinski]

Which means... readying a lot, trying to understand how oh Bacon could just revolt and bring the indentured servants along...

So watching history as it happens is a little different. Remember this night... well except for FOX viewers... where I get it... PERCEPTION CONTROL... you are witnessing a PIVOT POINT in history. This may very well be as big as 1989... and I hope not as big as 1789...

1989 was the year the USSR collapse

This was 1789



And we may very well be close to something similar. This should be a night to tell your grand kids about.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Me too - one of those "remember where you were" moments

...although this could just be the beginning.

[northoftheborder]

2. This is only the beginning of the story...........

[Recovered Repug]

3. 1989 was the year Eastern Europe collapsed.

The USSR held on for 2 more years (25Dec1991).

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Absolutely right

sorry... I remember this



My hubby was there and has some stories

[tabatha]

4. 1994 is etched into my mind.

The snaking lines of first time voters.

(There are other moments; but that is the strongest.)

[sofa king]

6. Don't forget 1848.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848

That year there was a wave of revolutions which are most interesting because few of them share any similarity to each other, except in that many of them were crushed. It seems that just the idea that one can revolt is contagious. In 1848 the revolts spread from Romania to Brazil.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I've talked about that one in the past

I just went to the other extreme... since The Terror (and I sure hope it ain't gonna end there) is possible given that Hosni is forcing people to do. Emotions are strange things.

[sofa king]

8. Do you think the revolutions might spread?

I'm not as well versed in Arab politics as I once was, but I see Assad in Syria and Khadaffi in Libya and I can't help wondering if they're next on the block. Behind them are the religious dictatorships of Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the oligarchies of the UAE and Kuwait, and the Islamic revolutions-in-waiting in Morocco and Algeria.

But none of those places will be any easier to knock over than Egypt is proving to be, and I suspect that all of them are more willing to resort to violence than the Egyptian army has been.

Jordan seemed to take note. The King basically cashed in his whole cabinet this week.

[Obamanaut]

9. "...readying a lot...? nt