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Mervyn Peake

Other people’s faults can be fascinating. One’s own are dreary.
Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 48.

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Voters, Govern Thy Governor
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What Me Vote?
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Swiss Gun Control
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Letting Citizens Vote
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Wisconsin’s Kumbaya Moment
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Lost Justice, Long Island
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Abolish. Or Set in Stone
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Destroying Dane Farming
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Exemplary Rejections
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Knock Down the Incumbency
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Term Limits’ Mysterious Impact
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The Next Election
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The Seinfeld Referendum
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Voters Need Not Apply
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Force Over Persuasion
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Daughter Draft
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What It Means
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The Obstruction
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A Fake Mystery
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Government Efficiency!
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Scientists for Censorship
“You have signed the death warrant for science,” scientist Peter …
Edmund Burke — “The people never give up their liberties but…”
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Term Limits and Jefferson
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All Those Egos, One Basket
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