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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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August 13, 2020

Myopia.

Sometimes we’re so pre-occupied by nurturing grudges with our enemies, we fail to notice opportunities for friendships. Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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October 22, 2019

Thoreau Quote with Photo, On Evil

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. — Continue reading

Arts and Leisure

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