See a comedian’s take on the recent Iraq War resolution debate in the US Congress.
Recommended book- Parliament of Whores by P. J. O'Rourke;
"If you would like to laugh and learn at the same time, then there is no better way to learn about public choice than by reading Parliament of Whores. When your customers have no motivation to know anything about the quality or cost of the product you are selling, then you are almost surely a politician and there is no limit to the bamboozle you can get away with, as long as your serve it up with a steady barrage of sanctimonious nonsense. The resulting waste may be depressing, but the absurdities are hilarious when lampooned by a first-rate humorist such as P. J. O'Rourke. The chapter on Agriculture policy alone is worth the price of this book."
Related;
Michael Gurr on the Gettysburg Address (podcast)
"The star turn on 19 November 1863 wasn't Abraham Lincoln at all. The star turn was the most famous public speaker in America, Edward Everett. He'd been a governor, a senator, an ambassador. A crowd of 15,000 wasn't going to faze him."
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