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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 Safest Place for the Heretic is Holding Torquemada’s Robes.

  By pammentations on February 12, 2022 • ( 3 )

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Cf. Mao, Be Your Authentic Self. (Scroll down)

  By pammentations on February 12, 2022 • ( 2 )

  You’ve nothing to fear. I worry a little that, in this politically charged environment particularly, when someone urges you to ‘be your authentic self’ she means ‘come out here where I can get you’. Addendum, April 11, 2021 as follows:… Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Of the Right to be Right or Wrong. (With updated article, C2C Journal.)

  By pammentations on February 7, 2022 • ( 3 )

  Update : A comprehensive article on the Frances Widdowson case and the state of academic freedom in Canada, generally: Peter Shawn Taylor, “Academic Freedom vs. Wokeism: The Frances Widdowson Affair“, C2C Journal, February 2, 2022, accessed 7 February 2022. (Thank… Read More ›

• 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 ›