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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Guest Post Mackenzie K. Sometimes Work Does Make Freedom.
In debates between energy and the environment, nuance is too often lost. My son, Mackenzie, and his wife, Jamie, live on a property in North Central Alberta. Mackenzie works in the patch and has recently begun an alternative career as… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
Saturday Morning Pam-toons. So … what did you do?
So … what did you do? I broke the Law of the Excluded Middle.
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
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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. What’s Your Sign?
The central image is a pencil sketch modelled on a photo of three children who died of starvation in Russia, 1921.**(see citation) Carnetarian, 20 Jan. – 18 Feb.; Pescatarian 18 Feb. – 20 Mar.; Pollotarian 21 Mar. – 20 Apr.;… Read More ›
Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Uncovering An Implicit Bias.
Recommended: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entry on Implicit Bias. Brownstein, Michael, “Implicit Bias”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2019/entries/implicit-bias/ (*link repaired — P)
Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Paranormal Activism. (scroll past image)
When you deny my ‘lived experience’, you deny my existence! We, the undersigned, petition our flesh and bone (zombies excluded) oppressors to recognize the following, Article 1. We are beings who refer to ourselves as ghosts. All other terms of… Read More ›
Saturday Morning Pam-toons. “Does he not there as much accuse mankind by his actions as I do by my words?” Thomas Hobbes.
It may seem strange to some man that has not well weighed these things that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference, made from… Read More ›