Evening Notes

British election returns are fun to watch. The multi-party system does interesting things to the dynamics you get used to with just two, and the way they have all the candidates lined up at the count with ribbons pinned on them is priceless.

Baheyya looks at Egypt's Central Security Forces as people within the regime rather than just imperial stormtroopers as we can get accustomed to thinking about them.

Finally, an e-mail from the organizers tells me that the papers from the International Conference on Islam will be posted within a couple of weeks. Assuming I'm still in the country then, I'll link to them, and probably comment on some that struck me as especially interesting.