Monday, August 11, 2003

Mondays. Ugh.

Has everyone had their coffee yet? Because here's one to file under the "Liberal Bias? What liberal bias?" folder.

Balloon Juice rips apart the media when it comes to reporting political fundraising. And it's not pretty. Mr. Alterman? Your proctologist called......

On a side note, I've finally been reading "What Went Wrong" by Bernard Lewis. Very informative, well written, and containing information that you couldn't find if you spent a year in libraries doing research. However, it contained one quote that made me laugh. The quote is in reference to the Ottoman Sultan, Mahmud II, who was reforming his military. (pg. 133, Chapter 7)

"In all his reforms, he sought help from abroad---from the Prussians for the army, from the British for the navy, from the French for the bureaucracy."

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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