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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. 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 • ( 3 )

  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 ›

• 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 ›