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• About Saturday Morning Pam-Toons

  By pammentations on January 29, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Tune in to pam-mentations.com every Saturday at 10 a.m. MT for the latest Pam-toon. Pam-toons provide a quirky commentary on philosophical and social & political issues.

• Thoughtlets.XLVII.

  By pammentations on September 18, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Just when news anchors’ hemorrhoid-inducing overuse of mindless phrases such as walk it back and double down starts to wane, another wave of brain-deadening soundbites inevitably waxes. And at its crest is the phrase bad actors. This phrase doesn’t refer… Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Ya gotta grab somethin’

  By pammentations on September 18, 2021 • ( 2 )

  Ya gotta grab somethin’

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. There’s a Reason It’s Called a Fairy Tale.

  By pammentations on September 18, 2021 • ( 1 )

  What REALLY happened to the boy who cried, The Emperor has no clothes! The Emperor’s New Clothes

• Freaky Night (poem)

  By pammentations on August 27, 2021 • ( 2 )

  One more poem from my long forgotten CD. I wrote Freaky Night mostly in my head as I walked around a neighbourhood lake late at night. My footsteps were a metronome and the words fell into their rhythm. The moon… Read More ›

• The Fine Art of Thumb Twiddling (poem)

  By pammentations on August 26, 2021 • ( 1 )

  I wrote the following poem at least a decade ago. I’d forgotten until this evening when I unearthed a CD from a dresser drawer and had a look. I help my mother ease into the passenger seat, guiding her by… Read More ›

• Thoughtlets. XLVI. Observing patterns of human behaviour.

  By pammentations on July 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Some find Tacitus’ Annals tedious. Some of it is. But his work keeps me riveted. I’m not so interested in history, per se. Rather I’m interested in identifying patterns of human behaviour, events that repeat over millennia, and asking why… Read More ›

• Thoughtlets. XLV. Theodicy revisited.

  By pammentations on July 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  News media characteristically brings us one story after another about the kinds of things humans to do each other which are broadly characterized as “evil”. And these stories tend to generate accusations of “evil-doers” which are then dispatched with the… Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-Toons. A Speakeasy in the Age of Prohibition. (Repost, 2020/09/14)

  By pammentations on June 29, 2021 • ( 5 )

  Hey Sweetheart. Are you here to have a drink or to speak your mind?

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Pursuant to Its Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, the University Students’ Union Welcomes the Neo-Knotsies Macrame Revival Club.

  By pammentations on June 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

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