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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Stirring the POT (1) by Stirring the POT (2) | Policy of Truth
[…] month, I started a series here called “Stirring the POT,” designed to announce forthcoming events and summarize notable recent happenings. In my last […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Stirring the POT (2)
March 2025: Kalven’s Complicit Executioners: A Critique of “Institutional Neutrality” Last month, I started a series here called “Stirring the POT,” designed to announce forthcoming events and summarize notable recent happenings. In my last installment, I mentioned that I was giving a paper on–a critique of–“institutional neutrality” at the 34th Annual Conference of the Association…
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(QC RSS) Seems Doable
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(xkcd.com) Lungfish
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Suffering by comparison
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! Mother Goose and Grimm, 3/16/25 One of the most famous and beloved Far Side panels involves a group…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on I Think They Call This Fascism by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Young. The claim that “racism” lacks public descriptive content just seems to me a reductio. Wikipedia gives a perfectly good definition: Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral trai…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) The drool-blob is genuinely upsetting
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! Blondie, 3/15/25 You gotta imagine that, when you’re talking to Dagwood Bumstead, there’s always a danger that he’s…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part III: What Catapults?
This is the third part of our [I, II, I don’t know, a few more?] part series looking at Rings of Power‘s Siege of Eregion from a military history perspective. Last week, we discussed the remarkably bad siege preparation of both sides: Adar’s complete lack of a fortified siege camp and Eregion’s complete lack of…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on I Think They Call This Fascism by Michael Young
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I’m not a linguist, but it does seem that pejorative function (as a matter of use/meaning) can overtake cognitive function, rendering a term cognitively defective in a particular way. Does ‘asshole’ have muc…
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