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"You know what it is to have a fixed idea, for instance when a man keeps on thinking about the same thing day and night, about... let us say, the moon. Well, I, too, have a kind of moon of my own. I'm obsessed day and night by one thought: I must write, I must write, I just must..." Trigorin, in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull
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jb says: Hi Steve, you jester.
I see nothing mentioned about mediocre candidates. 😉
jb says: Hi Jennifer. There’s far too many of them, and anyway they get elected by default.
What in the name of Jerry Brightonhammer was that all about?
I dont’ know but it doesn’t make sense to me.