When the history of the triumph of liberty is written, I hope due credit is given to Marshall Fritz, who died yesterday at 65 from cancer.  I was fortunate enough to have met Marshall when he first joined the Libertarian Party of California in the early 1980s, and am the only living person to have solved (without a hint) a riddle that he loved to share with everyone he knew.  He was fearless: he learned to be an excellent libertarian persuader the hard way, by trial and error, and took every failure as an opportunity to learn and grow.

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