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Thoughtlets. LIX. Emissions Cap
An aerobic atmosphere is a hostile environment for anaerobic organisms. So it’s time we implement a cap on O2 emissions. Continue reading
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Thoughtlets. LV. The darker side of tea and sympathy.
Some days Miss Anne Thrawpy comes to visit. She nestles down in my front room with a hot cup of strong black tea, lips puckered and sharp eyes piercing the steam. Sometimes Miss Anne overstays her welcome. She measures my windows for blackout curtains, and paces the yard to measure for barbed wire fencing. You Continue reading
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Thoughtlets. LI.
Observing an echo chamber developing at his university, my husband posted the following notice on his office door. Strangely enough, the notice raised not even a titter among his colleagues. Continue reading
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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. The Wages of Righteousness. (Repost)
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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Footnotes to Plato.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. –A.N. Whitehead– Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, Gifford Lectures 1927-28, New York: The Free Press, 1973. Internet Archive, accessed April 10, 2021. Part II, Section I, Chapter I. For budding Phil-nerds, here is the Continue reading
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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. So … what did you do?
So … what did you do? I broke the Law of the Excluded Middle. Continue reading
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Fifth Annual High Dudgeon Olympics: August 10 – 21, 2021
Categories: 1) Someone-Said-Something-Wrong-on-the-Internet Typathon (Individual and Team events) Individuals are logged onto a Facebook account with a continuous feed of posts, each followed by a comment thread. Athletes must respond to as many posts and corresponding comments as possible over a 24 hour period. Athletes are awarded ten points for each original response to a Continue reading
