there was a documentary on the history channel the other day.
it was on pablo escobar in the 80s and early 90s. the type of things he did were absolutely crazy. things like killing all the supreme court justices and assasinating three out of five of the presidential canidates. just the thought of one man having such leverage against an entire government like that is almost impossible to comprehend. i know that in this day and age, similar things still occur in other nations, but in our sterilized lives here in the united states, we hardly hear about it.

maybe it's just because i'm not very well informed, or it could just be that i'm showing my age.. when this all happened, i was only in sixth grade. i doubt that drug cartels were high on my priority list back then.

crazy stuff. i'm sure we could garner a lot of lessons from history, but that never happens, so whatever.