For one NOT to believe that Iran is behind the fall of the Mubarak government in Egypt requires a “head in the sand” detachment that I fail to grasp.

What we are seeing on our TV screens is Egypt going over to the “dark side.” Egypt is lost. Maybe not at this moment in time, but inevitably – lost.

Those of us around at the time of the 1979 Iranian student revolution that deposed the shah are having strong feelings of déjà vu because that uprising was swiftly co-opted by Ayatollah Khomeini who hated the Great Satan, America, as much as he hated the Little Satan, Israel.

The U.S. lost a major ally in the Middle East. The Shah may have been a bastard, but he was our bastard. The CIA had put him on the Peacock Throne.

A friend of mine wrote to me concerning a project which is to be funded in part by taxpayer money, “A shrine to the late senator Ted Kennedy.”

As shirl put it “Congress: I protest my tax dollars going to a shrine for a drunk who was a national disgrace!!! Let his family and friends pay for a shrine for him. Funds for this should not come from us taxpayers, we are being forced to pay for something we don’t owe and most of us don’t want.”