- The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
- Hunter S. Thompson, San Francisco Examiner, 1985
This article has to sum up my feelings about culture in this country better than anything else I've seen of late. Concise and to the point in a way that's more than a little painful to contemplate. I guess sometimes we do have to be saved from ourselves. In case you haven't seen it, here's the budget in full.
As if Iraq and Afghanistan weren't enough on our plate, looks like we're getting to fund a fight in Somalia with the African Union acting as our agents there. I'm really hoping we can stabilize things there, but instituting a borderline secular Christian government in a largely Muslim country with the backing of a neighboring strongman's military is not typically a blueprint for success.
I really wonder if this will give Bush an idea it's time we start planning to do the same, but I highly doubt it. The Administration seems determined to stay in this mess until either the Army collapses from the strain or Iraq collapses completely. It's hard to see any other result, seeing as the latest brilliant security plan is already showing signs of crumbling.
Gotta love it when the VP starts waxing Nixonian when discussing how to leave Iraq. Every day it looks more and more like they've run up a hell of a tab that the rest of us will get to Pay for, call it Presidential Dine and Dash.
Just to lighten the mood I wanted to post this blog entry from Michael Ruhlman's blog by one of my favorite authors'/chef/travel-show host Anthony Bourdain. A bit of vintage Bourdain vitriol, proving once again that he has to be the closest thing to the Hunter S Thompson of the Cooking World. If you haven't seen him on No Reservations on the Travel Channel, I highly recommend it.
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