This is how books were written 100 years ago, you had to spend like the first third explaining why everyone else is wrong before getting to the part where you claim to be right.

Hoofta.

Not that I need to tell anybody here, but if there's an arena with bigger egos than politics, it's academia. I'd pay money just to watch the carnage.

Could someone do a dissertation about exactly that?

Attack the judges, jury, and executioners? Bold strategy, Cotton.

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