Sunday links.

Ten of thousands protest military rule in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday.

Make some noise! Occupy Wall Street is organizing a 24 hour drum circle outside Mayor One Percent’s upper east side townhouse starting today.

UC Davis students make University Chancellor do a perp walk. Following the national outrage at police pepper spraying non-violent student protesters, Chancellor Katehi first hides in her office, then walks to her car past hundreds of silent students. Amazing.

There’s more coming out about the Obama administration’s role in the police crackdown of OWS camps. Obama’s mouthpiece Jay Carney is forced to deny any role. But the facts remain difficult things.

Chicago reporter Carol Marin points out that Rahm and Madigan are quite willing to give tax breaks to their friends at the Board of Trade. But poor folk’s voices go unheard. Watch what the one percenters get when the General Assembly meets on November 29th.

Did the people of Egypt risk so much just so the generals who served Mubarak could run things? Apparently not. Or at least the people of Egypt don’t think so.

There’s one thing that you always have to remember about Willard Romney. His jaw is made of glass. It always has been. When he ran for Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat, and the Kennedys started running at him like Kennedys run at everyone, he folded like a cheap lawn chair. He ruthlessly pushed out an incumbent Republican governor named Jane Swift, whom everybody in Massachusetts already had figured for a dolt, in order to run against Shannon O’Brien, who never was confused with Margaret Thatcher. Once elected governor, Willard made a lot of noise about setting up a statewide organization to elect more Republicans to the state legislature. A subsequent election showed this effort to be utterly futile, which is about when Willard gave up on really being governor and started running for president, which happens to be why we here in the Commonwealth (God save it!) have him to thank for inventing Obamacare. Thanks, Willard!

Then, in 2008, he had everything going for him until every single other Republican in the field began to make it known that they’d rather scoop out their own eyeballs with a salad fork than spend five minutes in a room with Willard Romney. The going got tough and Mitt got out, and started planning for 2012, when Republican people might have forgotten how much they truly loathed him. Charlie Pierce

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