A turning point?

Honestly, I should be asleep right now. Little S needed some testing this morning. As part of this test, they asked us to keep her awake for the six hours prior to testing. This would guarantee that she fall asleep during testing. So I've been up since way too early this morning. Wifey got up too. And as I drove up to the city for the testing, she was in the backseat trying every possible distraction to keep our kid from zonking out in her cozy car seat. So sleep would be good.

I remember when the Soviet Union collapsed and the Berlin Wall fell, I was in the hinterlands of China, on a hot slow train ride. An interesting experience. Not something I would recommend. Maybe they should have something like that on the amazing race. A slow slow travel segment, where they make everybody walk 15 miles. Sorry for the digression.

Anyhow, eventually we showed up in Hong Kong to find out that during our week long new blackout the world around us had significantly changed. I sort of think we might be going through a similar moment now, Tunisia has flipped government and America's most important Arab ally looks like it's about to flip. Is this just the beginning of a change throughout the Muslim world? Egypt is not one of the fundamentalist countries, but those countries are watching too. I think we may look back at this as a huge turning point for the century. But right now it's still too early to see which way this goes. Let's just hope that it goes well.

The speed at which these things can happen is amazing. Twitter, social media, this stuff is changing the world. Hopefully, that's a good thing as well.

I'm no expert in any of these areas, but this is just what I'm observing so far.