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March 10, 2025

Thoughtlets. LXXI. Dirty Thoughts.

(Will anyone know who Sarah Palin is anymore?) Sometimes someone standing on the outside of our social circle and of the peer review process can offer us criticism, but we’re often not willing to take it – at least not from just anybody on the outside. We’re apt to accept criticism from someone our tribes Continue reading

Philosophy, Political Rhetoric, Thoughtlets

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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

Thoughtlets

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October 27, 2019

Thinking, Fast and Slow. (And 2 worries.)Series 4.2.

Some of my books have well-worn pages, others are falling apart from use. The books I use heavily are usually those I think worth giving others. And so I do. I peruse used-book shops and thrift stores to stock my library with multiple copies. This way, I often have a book on hand to share. If Continue reading

Political Rhetoric

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