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As crazies try to out-crazy each other. 
but the repub infighting has more than made up for it.
Much, much more 
anyway, I'm getting a smile out of this. Berg wouldn't take her case so she harasses his paralegal? Does not compute...
But wouldn't the GOPhers be more likely to take cues from Ole Niccolo? 
When I was in college, I was in numerous political science courses. Machiavelli was discussed in at least half of them but in one class we had a lengthy discussion about him and his writings. It seems that The Prince was more like a pamphlet of advice to the prince who had recently risen to power because Niccolo wanted his job back after years in exile. He had been a public servant and what he was doing with The Prince was giving some rudimentary advice to this new prince hoping to win some favor and, hopefully, an appointment as an advisor.
The real works of Niccolo, though was the book called Discourses in which he recorded all the various ways in which the rulers of the nation cities and city states, as political realms were arranged in those times, as he had observed them in his travels as a liaison for his employer. What he did do was to identify a number of injustices and malicious practices as well and many were pretty pissed at him for the exposure. In order to punish and discredit him he was vilified in every way imaginable, even to this day, though he was never a person of power, he is vilified as though he was some ruthless bastard who invented all these evil doings. All he did was to expose the practices of others but since he wrote it down and was vilified for doing so, he gets all the bad rap.
That was the conclusive understanding that I got from that portion of that class. It was rather telling about what we see today, some things just never change much.
I heard some about his play(s)... but never had the time to read so I left that part out. Not worth bringing up something I know little about, and my rant was getting long!
Quite the brilliant guy.
I haven't had any plays to read for quite a while and, having engaged in a little stagecraft in the past myself, I really enjoy a good play.
Gawd knows it keeps their silly asses off the TV screens so we don't 
from seeing them.
