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January 6, 2024

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

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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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September 18, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. There’s a Reason It’s Called a Fairy Tale.

What REALLY happened to the boy who cried, The Emperor has no clothes! The Emperor’s New Clothes Continue reading

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June 29, 2021

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

Hey Sweetheart. Are you here to have a drink or to speak your mind? Continue reading

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April 7, 2021

Some Problems with Complaisance.

If something doesn’t bother me, e.g. the F-word, why should I be bothered that it bothers you? Let’s start with friendship. As Aristotle notes, “[Friends are] those with whom we are on such terms that, while we respect their opinions, we need not blush before them for doing what is conventionally wrong…” (Aristotle. Rhetoric. Trans. Continue reading

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January 3, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. The University of Backyard Sleepovers.

At U.B.S., 8-year-olds archive banned words for posterity. We honour Children’s Ways of Being and Children’s Ways of Knowing. See, Paranormal Activism And, A Speakeasy in the Age of Prohibition Continue reading

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December 12, 2020

Thoughlets. xxvii.

Two SJW slogans are: Silence is Violence and Words are Violence. If silence is violence, then one must speak. But words are violence. If words are violence, then one must be silent. But silence is violence.To avoid absurdity, the SJW must stipulate that Some Silence is Violence and Some Words are Violence – neither of which make great slogans. But which silence is Continue reading

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September 24, 2020

Saturday Morning Pam-Toons. Before the Censors Had At It.

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September 18, 2020

Thoughtlets. ix.

What is meant by the admonition ‘Think before you speak!’ ? The vast majority of the time we don’t think before we speak. Else we’d never speak. So what is meant is either 1) stop and think about the right social thing to say or, 2) the factually correct thing. And oftentimes these two things Continue reading

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September 18, 2020

Thoughtlets .iv.

During the Reformation, the authority of the church was taken from the hands of priests and distributed to the general populace. During the Enlightenment the process of distributing knowledge of the sciences to the general populace through education began and continues to this day. And we’ve an increasingly literate population the world over, accelerated by Continue reading

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