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i've just started reading bastiat's 'economic sophisms', and i can really see where the foundation of several of hazlitt's ideas comes from. it's quite exciting, reading the original book that influenced hazlitt himself- besides which, bastiat is plain fun to read. he has this way of reducing complex problems to very simple explanations, and he's extremely witty.

i finished tuchman, just yesterday, and now i'm extremely eager to learn more about the first world war beyond the month of august and all that led up to the marne. i've found a couple of fantastic websites, and i'm slowly making my way through them. i wish there were more hours in a day.

in other news, schwarzy has, apparently, won the californian election. i couldn't be happier about that, although, judging from bustamante's concession speech, i kind of wonder whether he got the memo.