What's Not Hot In The World

Protests, uprisings, revolutions. No matter what you call the recent events in Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen, they have served to illustrate the upside and downside of gatherings of large numbers of angry people. Power to the people, yes -- but maybe not to mobs of disenfranchised people who seem to have honed their social skills in a mosh pit. Strength in numbers, for sure -- but when twice as many people show up to the party than the number that were invited, the music gets drowned out by the din of the crowd.