criticism

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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January 17, 2022

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. The CDC reports an alarming number of repetitive strain injuries during the Finger-Wagging pandemic.

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Pam-Toons, Social and Political Commentary

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November 24, 2021

Thoughtlets. xxxvi. (Repost; January 27,2021)

Tacitus, an Roman historian, writes these words in the Annals sometime around 117 CE: “I wanted to dispel the fictions of hearsay, and to ask people into whose hands my book may come not to prefer widely circulated and eagerly accepted fantasies over truth uncorrupted by sensationalism.” Tacitus. The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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October 14, 2021

What, if anything, is wrong with MSNBC, CNN, and FOX? (Part 1 of 2)

My other half habitually surfs through a number of national and international news channels in the evenings. Our house is small, so I’m captive to whatever noise emanates from these rotating broadcasts. Sometimes this noise really gets under my skin. Such as? Such as the current tabloid coverage of the Gabby Petito case by the Continue reading

Philosophy, Political Rhetoric, Social and Political Commentary

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September 21, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Cell Phone Chain Gang. (Repost from Oct. 18, 2020)

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Pam-Toons

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September 18, 2021

Thoughtlets.XLVII.

Just when news anchors’ hemorrhoid-inducing overuse of mindless phrases such as walk it back and double down starts to wane, another wave of brain-deadening soundbites inevitably waxes. And at its crest is the phrase bad actors. This phrase doesn’t refer to thespian hacks. Rather bad actors refers to those people the anchor doesn’t like and Continue reading

Political Rhetoric, Thoughtlets

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September 28, 2020

Thoughtlets .xiii.

Dear News-Media folks, You need to lose the following annoying cliches: ‘double down’, ‘walk it back’, and ‘going forward’. Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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