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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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(xkcd.com) Skew-T Log-P
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Policy of Truth) The Lessons of History
It’s amusing how many obituaries of Jimmy Carter mention ruefully that it was Carter’s idea, inspired by Zbigniew Brzezinski, to fund the Afghan mujahidin against the Soviets. It seemed like such a great idea at the time, but look at Afghanistan today. Brzezinski was widely hailed as a strategic genius and moral prophet for devising…
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(Cat and Girl) The Genius
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – More baggage than a trip to Aruba
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Rime of the Denial Manager by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Nathan Byrd. I basically agree with that, but my focus in these posts has been narrower. The question I’ve been pursuing has the extent to which Mangione’s assassination of Thompson could be justified as a response to wrongful k…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Rime of the Denial Manager by Nathan Byrd
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I was thinking more in the direction of social murder as well, so thanks for mentioning that. It does seem to me that the real issue is that you have a network of institutions that mutually reinforce the benefits to the other…
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