ethics

March 10, 2025

Upcoming in my Political Rhetor Series.

I’ve published: 6.1. Intro. Pam and Aristotle on the Political Rhetor; The Political Rhetor and the Future: 6.2.a. The Poor; 6.2. b. Children; 6.2.c.i. Future Generations. The Political Rhetor and the Future, Future Generations: 6.2.ii. Who are the Future Generations?; 6.2.iii The Glimmer of Hope Move; and, 6.2.iv. Stewardship — are each in the editing Continue reading

Political Rhetoric, Social and Political Commentary

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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 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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Pam-Toons

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March 20, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. As Not To Be Weary of It. Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes, A.P. Martinich and Brian Battiste, Eds, Leviathan, Broadview, 2011. Part I, Chapter XIV, pp 128-129 Continue reading

Pam-Toons

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February 21, 2021

R.e.s.p.e.c.t. What does it mean and why should I care?

In my youth, my dad often gave me the following advice. Respect your elders, but don’t take any shit. I took Dad to mean that there is a mutual component to respect, that my respecting my elders didn’t give them license to abuse me. Even youth are due a modicum of respect. In this light, Continue reading

Political Rhetoric

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August 29, 2020

Saturday Morning Pam-Toons. Truth sets you free?

TRUTH. IT’S TRUE. TELL THE TRUTH. I’M TELLING THE TRUTH. YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH. YOU CAN HAVE THE TRUTH WHEN YOU PRY IT OUT OF MY COLD, DEAD HANDS. TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE. THE TRUTH AS I SEE IT. TRUE FOR YOU, BUT NOT FOR ME. TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. BE Continue reading

Pam-Toons

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ethics

Upcoming in my Political Rhetor Series.

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

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

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. As Not To Be Weary of It. Thomas Hobbes

R.e.s.p.e.c.t. What does it mean and why should I care?

Saturday Morning Pam-Toons. Truth sets you free?