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diff --git a/content/drafts/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-ii-friendship-survived.md b/content/drafts/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-ii-friendship-survived.md
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@@ -150,3 +150,7 @@ I had done better than average; most people were starving
 evolution of traditions, trying to create a Schelling point everyone going to bed at the same time, as an example of everyone being synchronized
 
 predictive text driving more of the world; right angles and the aesthetic discernment dimension and the vampires
+
+people only respond to coalitions, imagining people running around in defensive coalitions
+
+not trusting Google directions

diff --git a/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md b/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md
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@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Category: commentary
 Tags: discourse
 Status: draft
 
+> _There's a land that I see  
+> Where the children are free  
+> And I say it ain't far  
+> To this land from where we are_
+>
+> —"Free To Be ... You and Me"
+
 > If you want to make your stupid dream real, you need to have a realistic picture of the world. If you want a society in which men and women have the same brain, or one in which feminism actually works, you would have to _make it so_, with advanced biological engineering. John Varley writes fiction: so did Joanna Russ. 
 >
 > —[Greg Cochran](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/)

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 QUEUE 0—
 
+The Nadir of Reading Comprhension
+Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
 Q Memoirs of My Recent Madness, Part II: Friendship Survived
 A Common Misunderstanding; Or, the Spirit of the Staircase (24 January 2009)
 There's a Land That I See; Or, the Spirit of Intervention
@@ -44,6 +46,7 @@ FICTION QUEUE—
 * fictionalized version of the male vs. female rape / War on Optimization for Generalized Secrecy anecdote
 * Blame Me for Trying
 * Blindspot
+* Freakshow
 * "Love Like You"
 * Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels