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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.

• 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 ›

• 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 ›

• Small house in a big world. The power of perspective.

  By pammentations on August 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  I don’t know how old I was when I first heard I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very big world. But as one of my dad’s favourite quotes, I’ve known it as… 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 ›