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Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: January 2
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