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Politics

The Kook Abides

Matt Welch | 9.1.2010 1:26 PM

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Feeling glum about life, art, politicians, California, or all four? Then read this uplifting Wall Street Journal tale about what happens when bad art hits bad people in a badly named town. Now there's finally another reason to pull off the 101 besides The Kraken.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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