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I’ve completed all but defence of my thesis for a masters in philosophy. My disciplinary interest is in the acquisition and maintenance of our beliefs. But I also have a background in the study of rhetoric, linguistics, and philosophy of language. Political rhetoric particularly interests me.

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. The Wages of Righteousness.

  By pammentations on January 17, 2022 • ( 1 )

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Plague-Spreader.

  By pammentations on January 17, 2022 • ( 0 )

  When the Bubonic Plague rekindled in 16th and 17th century Europe, some thought the illness was spread by diabolic agents who captured its essence in an ointment and then smeared the greasy substance on walls, people, and all kinds of… Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Love-sick and isolated by covid, Mrs. Fiklesbrank finally snaps and kidnaps the plumber.

  By pammentations on January 17, 2022 • ( 4 )

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. The CDC reports an alarming number of repetitive strain injuries during the Finger-Wagging pandemic.

  By pammentations on January 17, 2022 • ( 2 )

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Covid 5896BC (Repost, 7 Nov 2020)

  By pammentations on January 17, 2022 • ( 0 )

• Thoughtlets. xxxvi. (Repost; January 27,2021)

  By pammentations on November 24, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Tacitus, an Roman historian, writes these words in the Annals sometime around 117 CE: “I wanted to dispel the fictions of hearsay, and to ask people into whose hands my book may come not to prefer widely circulated and eagerly accepted… Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. “The universities of the West, the lights that illumined the (so-called) Dark Ages.”(Hugh Graham)– Repost, 02/21

  By pammentations on October 15, 2021 • ( 2 )

  It is for us as it was for the Irish Monks of the early medieval period, to carry the embers is to risk burning one’s hands. —Pam, 2021 *Pencil and pencil crayon drawing. For a quick overview of the contribution… Read More ›

• What, if anything, is wrong with MSNBC, CNN, and FOX? (Part 1 of 2)

  By pammentations on October 14, 2021 • ( 4 )

  My other half habitually surfs through a number of national and international news channels in the evenings. Our house is small, so I’m captive to whatever noise emanates from these rotating broadcasts. Sometimes this noise really gets under my skin…. Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Cell Phone Chain Gang. (Repost from Oct. 18, 2020)

  By pammentations on September 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

• 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 ›