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(Policy of Truth) Let the Boomerang Speak
“Could Better Security Have Stopped the New Orleans Terror Attack?” asks the New York Times with furrowed brow. Yes, if you turn the country into a gigantic fortress, you can probably stave off another a “terror attack.” But then, you can achieve even greater assurance of safety against “terror attacks” if you take a cyanide…
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) teaching old hippies new tricks
Around about 2000, I began to consider how it would be, when and if I became an Old Hippy. Old Hippies had been a common part of my cultural heritage ever since the Eighties, when it was generally understood that they were terrible embarrassment to everyone — including, somehow, hippies. They continued to wear the…
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(xkcd.com) Origami Black Hole
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Lessons of History by Roderick T. Long
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Male friends
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(Policy of Truth) An Agitated Moslem
An irony no one could have made up: just a few days after the death of Jimmy Carter, the grandfather of our Afghan wars, a veteran of one of those wars launches a terrorist attack on the United States. Asked about the possibility of blowback from the proxy war he had devised in Afghanistan, Carter’s…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) RETURN TO COMICS BLOGGING IN THE FAR-OFF FUTURE YEAR 2025: MOSTLY MARY WORTH EDITION
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! Hello, faithful readers! Did you have a good Christmahanukkwanzaa? Are you ready for a return to comics blogging…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on UHC, Denials, and Wrongful Death Revisited by Irfan Khawaja
I left one thing unaddressed, because I was away from home, and didn’t have my Locke with me: “I don’t think Locke’s Second Treatise supports vigilante murder, but I’ll check out your other sources.” I didn’t say that Locke supp…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Thy Kingdom’s Will Be Done by New Orleans and Foreknowledge | Policy of Truth
[…] couple of days ago, I predicted here that a “terrorist” attack targeting the United States would take place. Now one has, in New […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Yes, I Had Foreknowledge of the New Orleans Attack
A couple of days ago, I predicted here that a “terrorist” attack on the United States would take place. Now one has, in New Orleans. Did I have foreknowledge of this attack? I sure did. In fact, I told you what the foreknowledge was in the post itself: You can’t spend decades supporting apartheid, conquest,…
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