[Protect the Bill of Rights]

re xo's comment:

The full force of the Very connected Duke Alumni
Journalistic network will crush the living daylights
out of all these hicks.

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There are big fish in a small pond and great white sharks in the ocean.

The big fish in the small pond might have realized the fins they see are not Flipper's.

[TommyDale]

The other thing the hicks overlooked was the power of the internet. In this case, "hicks" includes those in power in Durham and the local press.