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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those Drones Explained by The Unintended, the Foreseen, and the Defamatory | Policy of Truth
[…] are, Sue Altman among them. That’s the underlying meaning of the now-forgotten New Jersey drone controversy of the late fall of 2024. The drones in question turned out to be home grown ones, with some […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) The Unintended, the Foreseen, and the Defamatory
“We absolutely cannot and should not ever be cheerleading and wishing for the deaths of Israeli children…”–Sue Altman Sue Altman and Adam Hamawy are both Democratic candidates for Congress in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District. A controversy has recently erupted over Altman’s response to comments Hamawy made in an interview with Hasan Piker. The basics…
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(xkcd.com) Horizontal Stabilizers
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Comics of a certain age
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dick Tracy, 5/3/26 There’s no such thing as the “J. Duveen Art Gallery” (though Joseph Duveen was a…
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(Policy of Truth) Sue Altman Is No Progressive
Sue Altman’s Rejection of Reparations, Attack on Adam Hamawy, and Pro-War Politics Show She Is Out of Step With Progressive Values by Dr Sadaf Jaffer and Minister Elorm Ocansey On the eve of his death, Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. stood in Memphis as a witness. The speech we remember as “I’ve Been to…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Mostly dads
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Family Circus, 5/2/26 A thing about one-panel comic strips is that it can be hard to tell what…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part III: Generals, Warlords and Vassals
This is the third part (I, II, III, IV, V) of our series looking at how Carthage’s complex, multipart armies were raised and constituted. Last time, we looked at the backbone of Carthage’s armies: North African troops levied out of Carthage’s subject communities in North Africa. These fellows seem to have been directly employed by…
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on We Owe No Allegiance by Roderick T Long
In reply to Roderick T Long. Argh, I meant the cowboy songs one: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9vyi4l6nMW7o-k22UgBSQW39K7bHJVu3
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on We Owe No Allegiance by Roderick T Long
And now side 2 of Rebels and Redcoats is available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsonqgRKKqA as well as the Civil War one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTZZVxU92gw
Got any book recommendations?