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(Policy of Truth) Not a Rhetorical Question
How is it that a foreigner, Naftali Bennett, can come to the United States and suggest that Americans be blown up—yet no American has the legal right to suggest that we do the same to Naftali Bennett? I can guarantee that there would be volunteers. At…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Suburban ennui
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! Hi and Lois, 4/7/25 Ah hell yeah, Hi and Lois is at it again, with “it” being a…
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(QC RSS) comix
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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(xkcd.com) Tariffs
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) When you get peeled in a dream, you get peeled in real life
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! The Phantom, 4/6/25 One thing I respect about the Phantom is that, for a strip that started out…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Oracle Speaks by The Reporters that Didn’t Bark in the Night | Policy of Truth
[…] I last wrote about this, on March 31, The New York Times’s most recent story about Oracle dated to March […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) The Reporters that Didn’t Bark in the Night
The New York Times is the paradigm of mainstream legacy reporting, but its business reporting is so fucking bizarre–so outlandish and downright weird in its selectivity–that you can understand why people who work in business resort to conspiracy theories to explain what its reporters are doing. It’s widely been reported in tech news that Oracle’s…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Molinari East and West by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I just edited the above comment because I’d previously, for reasons that escape me, put “20 December” for Jason’s Pacific talk rather than “17 April.”I blame Irfan. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Naftali Bennett at Princeton by Princeton’s Genocide | Policy of Truth
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(Policy of Truth) Princeton’s Genocide
In October 2024, after several years of activism (most recently spearheaded by Princeton Israeli Apartheid Divestment, or PIAD), the Council for the Princeton University Community (CPUC) invited written comments from members of the Princeton University community weighing in for and against divestment from Israel. The CPUC rejected the bid for divestment about a month ago.…
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