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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The JBMDL Afghan Account by Learn the Language | Policy of Truth
[…] in 2021, I wrote a post here about the “JBMDL Afghan Account,” the name of the medical accounts outsourced to my company by a local hospital system. The […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Learn the Language
A friend of mine was unceremoniously fired from Felician University in 2023–one of sixteen people fired on a single day–after 23 unrelenting years as an English comp instructor to students with an average SAT verbal score well below 500. I described her in a letter of recommendation, without exaggeration, as “the most dedicated college instructor…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Based on how they look and their and sexual chemistry, it should be Luke/Leia honestly
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! Pluggers, 1/26/25 It’s interesting that the caption tells us that “pluggers know when they are ready for an…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Cancelled riff Saturday
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! Shoe, 1/25/25 I was going to go on a riff here about the circumstances under which a lawyer…
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(Policy of Truth) Advice for the Democrats
Been dazed and confused for so long, it’s not true…Wanted a president, never bargained for you–Led Zeppelin, “Dazed and Confused” (more or less) Oh, the poor Democrats. Here’s The New York Times lamenting their fate. Come on Dems, you can do this. Just pretend that Donald Trump is a Palestinian ER physician, and that the…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Gap Week (January 24, 2025)
Hey, folks. As much as I hate doing it, I have to pull a ‘gap week’ this week, as the second part of the Gracchi series (on the younger brother, Gaius Gracchus) isn’t done yet and I have some academic travel that I need to prepare for which is going to demand most of my…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Nowhere to Hide by Irfan Khawaja
He eventually got the money, and was able to buy groceries. He’s now settling in for a month-long siege. LikeLike
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(xkcd.com) T. Rex Evolution
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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