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June 29, 2024

Dissoi Logoi (cf Aristotle), the Devil’s Advocate (Mill), and comments.

Way, way back in the day — a couple millennia ago — students receiving a classical education would have learned the necessity of Dissoi Logoi to constructing their arguments. That is, they’d throw themselves full throttle into an opposing or contradictory position to their own. And while Aristotle invented neither the method nor the term, Continue reading

Philosophy, Political Rhetoric, Social and Political Commentary

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January 6, 2024

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

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Pam-Toons

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February 7, 2022

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

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 you, A.R., for bringing this article to my attention.) Frances Widdowson has been fired from Continue reading

Pam-Toons, Social and Political Commentary

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June 29, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-Toons. A Speakeasy in the Age of Prohibition. (Repost, 2020/09/14)

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Pam-Toons

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March 5, 2021

Fifth Annual High Dudgeon Olympics: August 10 – 21, 2021

Categories: 1) Someone-Said-Something-Wrong-on-the-Internet Typathon (Individual and Team events) Individuals are logged onto a Facebook account with a continuous feed of posts, each followed by a comment thread. Athletes must respond to as many posts and corresponding comments as possible over a 24 hour period. Athletes are awarded ten points for each original response to a Continue reading

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Dissoi Logoi (cf Aristotle), the Devil’s Advocate (Mill), and comments.

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

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

Saturday Morning Pam-Toons. A Speakeasy in the Age of Prohibition. (Repost, 2020/09/14)

Fifth Annual High Dudgeon Olympics: August 10 – 21, 2021