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January 7, 2024

Tacitus Quote. Guilt by association.

“Which is the more pitiful I cannot decide — being accused because of a friendship, or accusing a friend.” Tacitus. The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero. Oxford World’s Classics. Translated by J.C. Yardley. Introduction and notes by Anthony A. Barrett. Oxford University Press Inc.: New York. 2008. (Book Six, Chapter 6, p 182) Continue reading

Thoughtlets
January 7, 2024

Update.

I’m breaking a period of inactivity. Stay tuned later this week for a new Pam-toon. Yes, it’s in progress. Today I leave you with a photo from my archives. Laundry hung to dry in a small Italian town. I have a thing about laundry on the line. It makes me happy. There’s something calming about Continue reading

Arts and Leisure, Social and Political Commentary
January 6, 2024

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. The Wages of Righteousness. (Repost)

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June 11, 2023

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. “AS EVERYONE KNOWS …”

DON’T LET THE ARGUMENT TO THE HAND-WAVE WIN THE DAY Continue reading

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April 1, 2023

Saturday Morning Pam-Toons. Retrieving Your “Lived Experience” From the Baggage Reclamation Centre.

This Pam-toon was inspired by two curiosities. I wondered how coherent it would be for an amnesiac to recount her “lived experience” of her forty years as a member of a marginalised group. And I wondered, given the following vignette, about the reliability of a non-amnesiac’s report of her own “lived experience.” A friend’s daughter Continue reading

Pam-Toons, Philosophy, Political Rhetoric, Social and Political Commentary

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March 23, 2023

My New Podcast.

I’ve started a podcast: Pam’s Galaxy of Conceptoids: Essays and observations from intracranial space. The first several episodes will be essays I’ve published on this blog. If interested, you can listen to the first episode here. Continue reading

Catch-All

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January 28, 2023

Thoughtlets. L.

Resistance is not raising up an army and trading fire, by that time too many have needlessly suffered — as will many more. Resistance is inviting someone you’ve been taught (and are expected) to hate to your table and treating her as a friend. The people you need to resist, to this end, are your Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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January 28, 2023

Thoughtlets. XLIX.

CIVIL RIGHTS HAVE NEVER BEEN BORN IN INTELLECTUALLY SAFE SPACES Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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June 25, 2022

3 Holiday Photos.

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Arts and Leisure

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March 20, 2022

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. In Matters of Love and War — And All Matters In Between — There is No Dearth of Armchair Psychiatrists

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