On the streets of downtown Cairo, however, just blocks outside the square, hundreds of pro-Mubarak supporters, carrying sticks and throwing rocks, charged barricades erected by anti-regime protesters.
In the May 17 issue of The New Yorker (subscription required), he implies that we should go back to the old way of doing things: of throwing mud on a wall and seeing what sticks.
As a freelance writer, I am constantly looking for my next writing assignment, throwing anything and everything up against the wall to see what sticks.