Event: The Executive Branch is a Committee, with an Economic Example of Why it Matters.

Thesis: Stop thinking about whether they are likeable or not… there will be time enough for that later.
As much as the presidency is a person, it is also an institution, and we would more accurately make responsible decisions in presidential elections by thinking of the office as a very powerful and ideally coordinated committee, with the ballot in the chairmanship.

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Gloamane 25, 31.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I cant hear what youre sayin.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.

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Gloamane 24, 31.

– What a goopy, grimy weekend. Oog. I had a cold and felt like crap the whole time. On Friday I tried to watch a documentary on the ocean, but I fell asleep before the end. On Saturday I finished the documentary and most of West Side Story, and visited with Evan and Anna for a bit, but then I felt too sick to make it out to Emma’s birthday party.

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Diary: September 1996.

On the last weekend before Labor Day Mitch and I borrowed my parents car to go camping at Warren Dunes State Park. For five dollars that year, one could camp on the parking lot (“ash-fault” the way Mitch said it), and so we pitched a tiny-dome tent and joined a sort-of weird community of St.

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