They're back

When all the site problems were at their worst, one of the things I did to try and lighten the server's load was to remove the random quotes feature here. It didn't seem to help, and boy, did I get lots of email complaining about their absence — I didn't think you guys would even notice!

Anyway, I've restored them now. Look over to the left, just below the big red A and the Americans United logo.

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