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Elvis Costello has disowned "Oliver's Army" for the same reason.

Chef's kiss.

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Kylo Ren is the source of the famous joke about "first time as tragedy, second time as fan-fic".

The best.

He brought it up with Mark Carney too:

He didn't explicitly tie it to the crowd size but he did whine about how they had inaccurately forecast rain (and then used that to suggest that predictions about the climate can't be accurate either).

Predestined AND overdetermined.

Half-considered is generous.

We seem still to be in Teutoburg Forest phase of the struggle.

"Libertarians have been making these arguments for the last 170 years or so, and by this point the weak spots are fairly well known. As a result, the arguments on both sides have the character of the opening moves in a chess game: It's all by the book."

Yup. I'm ready for alternatives.

Another fine rabbit hole is reading everything by Trollope. I mention it because there's a comic subplot in the Palliser Novels around the hero Plantagenet "Planty Pal" Palliser's attempts to push through a decimal coinage reform.