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Pam-Toons
Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Guest Post Mackenzie Knight. Sometimes Work Does Make Freedom.
In debates between energy and the environment, nuance is too often lost. My son, Mackenzie, and his wife, Jamie, live on a property in North Central Alberta. Mackenzie works in the patch and has recently begun an alternative career as… Read More ›
Saturday Morning Pam-toons. End of the Clapham Line. Guest artist Mackenzie Knight. (Repost Sept. 2020)
The Man on the Clapham Omnibus The ‘Man on the Clapham Omnibus’ is an hypothetical reasonable, ordinary person used in English law courts as a standard to judge the actions of real people in given situations — particularly to determine… Read More ›
Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Rock and Baton.
As also because a man cannot tell when he seeth men proceed against him by violence whether they intend his death or not. Thomas Hobbes, A.P. Martinich and Brian Battiste, Eds, Leviathan, Broadview, 2011. Part I, Chapter XIV, 8. p… Read More ›
Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Footnotes to Plato.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. –A.N. Whitehead– Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, Gifford Lectures 1927-28, New York: The Free Press, 1973. Internet Archive, accessed… Read More ›
Saturday Morning Pam-toons. So … what did you do?
So … what did you do? I broke the Law of the Excluded Middle.
Saturday Morning Pam-toons. And from this, an entire political theory.
Thomas Hobbes, A.P. Martinich and Brian Battiste, Eds, Leviathan, Broadview, 2011.Part I, Chapter XIII, 3. (p 122)
