Peg -- not that he's not very naive -- but he's a big risk-taker -- just shot his wad, after all -- and extremely arrogant (how I'd characterize the 'naive' part), thinking he 'got' the whole big picture, or at least enough to make himself some famous hero to some constituency, because he just knew he was so smart and had seen everything -- and so he decided he was gonna do some history-making world-saving Paul Revere thing, making himself the story, and set himself up for life ever after
fucking idiot
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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