Locally, quite a few people have picked up on an observation I began to make
> in May: Wisconsin lit a long, slow fuse.
>
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
Locally, quite a few people have picked up on an observation I began to make
> in May: Wisconsin lit a long, slow fuse.
>
Carrol keeps coming back to this point, and I still can't make heads or tails of it. Wisconsin was great, but what was it except a localized reflection of Tahrir Square, and Tunisia's Dignity Revolution before it? It's kind of silly to try tracing these thing - Tunisia certainly had plenty of precedents and inspirations, inside the Arab world and out of it - but if you're looking for a recent fuse, it was lit on December 17, in Sidi Bouzid, by Mohamed Bouazizi.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."