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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. The Wages of Righteousness. (Repost)
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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Cf. Mao, Be Your Authentic Self. (Scroll down)
You’ve nothing to fear. I worry a little that, in this politically charged environment particularly, when someone urges you to ‘be your authentic self’ she means ‘come out here where I can get you’. Addendum, April 11, 2021 as follows: Gilbert King, “The Silence that Preceded China’s Great Leap into Famine“, Smithsonianmag.com, Sept. 12, 2012. Continue reading
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On Judging Facts. Three Quotes Worth Comparing: Hobbes, Mill, Lippmann.
“And as in arithmetic, unpracticed men must, and professors themselves may often err and cast up false, so also in any other subject of reasoning, the ablest, most attentive, and most practised men may deceive themselves and infer false conclusions, not but that reason itself is always right reason, as well as arithmetic is a Continue reading
