...if you got a gun, shoot 'em in the head. That's the sure way to kill 'em. If you don't, get yourself a club, beat 'em or burn 'em. They go up pretty easy.

While traditional zombie narratives tend to end in apocalypse, most...theoretical approaches...suggested vigorous policy responses should we be attacked by the living dead.  Realists would push for a live-and-let-live arrangement between the undead and everyone else.  Liberals would call for an imperfect but useful global governing body to regulate the undead -- a World Zombie Organization.  Constructivists would call for a robust, pluralistic security community dedicated to preventing new zombie outbreaks and socializing existing zombies into human society.  Bureaucrats would very likely err in their initial response, but they'd adapt.

Daniel W. Drezner, author of Theories of International Politics and Zombies
"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Zombies"
The Chronicle Review
February 18, 2011

Perhaps Urban VIII could help...

The moral [of the 2010 election] is clear. Republicans don’t have a mandate to cut spending; they have a mandate to repeal the laws of arithmetic. 

Paul Krugman
The New York Times
February 14, 2011

Egypt: a caution

The morning freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us. We were wrought up with ideas inexpressible and vaporous, but to be fought for. We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves: yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.

T.E. Laurence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom