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(Policy of Truth) Coronavirus Diary (48): Reflections Under Lockdown in Washington Heights
I got in the car the other day for what I think is the third time in the last four weeks. I had “essential business” to tend to in New York, so I drove from Readington, New Jersey, where I live, to Washington Heights in Manhattan. I spent a tedious afternoon in Washington Heights engaged…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (47): Welcome to the Madhouse by Irfan Khawaja
Video footage via The New York Post: https://nypost.com/2020/04/19/healthcare-workers-face-off-protesters-in-colorado/ LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Coronavirus Diary (47): Welcome to the Madhouse
Via Alyson McClaren (@McclaranAlyson): Health care workers stand in the street in counter-protest to hundreds of people who gathered at the State Capitol… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— Alyson McClaran (@McclaranAlyson) April 20, 2020
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Philosophy Journals: Who Needs Them by Feyerabend and the libertarians | Notes On Liberty
[…] who has been purged from at least one libertarian inner circle and blacklisted from several others, sent me a bunch of journals: Critical Review, Raritan, and New Left Review. (I still owe him for the postage. Holla at me Dr […] LikeLike
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) The Way We Live Now
“‘[T]his machine … has access to the Congressional Library St. Louis Annex, does it not?’ … ‘Certainly. Hooked into the Interlibrary Net, rather, though you can restrict a query to one library.’” — Robert Heinlein, I Will Fear No Evil (1970) “[H]is screen came alight with the assembled faces of his Council, each face in…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (46): Protest and Pandemic at Sea by Deiker Padrino
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Good Evening Professor, I agree on everything you’ve discussed on this article. This pandemic has pressured politicians and official authorities to make very tough decisions. I feel that we should listen to them…
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(QC RSS) Movies Are Fake
dinner is good though
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(Coding Horror) Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
Hard to believe that I’ve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that’s yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Southern Comfort
Recommended quasi-lockdown viewing: an excellent pair of docudrama miniseries about early Antarctic exploration – The Last Place on Earth (about the competing Scott and Amundsen expeditions) and Shackleton (about, duh, the Shackleton expedition – though Shackleton also features briefly in the former series). They’re not just exciting dramas but also useful case studies in virtue…
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on Who Said This? by Roderick
See the answer.
Got any book recommendations?