The Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi has won the Egyptian presidential election. While this does not mean bread, peace, land and all power to the soviets this is a good thing. If the old regime managed to persuade, cajole, intimidate the population into voting away their own revolution that would have been a bad thing. Their man, Ahmed Shafiq basically promised to hang every troublemaker he could get his hands on. That would have been a bad thing too. For the time being the Egyptian revolution has a future. It's a shame to have to spell these things out... but there's always someone who needs reminding.
But, speaking of Ahmed Shafiq, he's gone. He's off to Abu Dhabi. I'm sure he'll have friends there. You have to admire that sort of commitment: if I can't kill everyone then, screw you guys, I'm outta here.
