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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Another Night of Military Exercises Using Civilians as Human Shields by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. In vaguely related news, when I was in NYC in 2007 for the SDS / MDS conference, I stayed at a (now no longer extant) hotel in Greenwich Village (the Larchmont, 27 W 11th St.) across the street from the building (18 West 11th…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Another Night of Military Exercises Using Civilians as Human Shields by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. It’s very sad to learn that Hamas has made such inroads into the Ivy League. You say that you were unable to find the tunnels at Cornell, which only underscores the imminent nature of the danger the institution faces…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Young people and their food foibles
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! Archie, 6/6/26 I guess the joke here is that Archie, who we mostly know through his romantic misadventures…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Another Night of Military Exercises Using Civilians as Human Shields by Roderick T. Long
The campuses of Dartmouth and Harvard, I can testify, also feature subterranean tunnels, as a means of bypassing snow, ice, and general cold. The ones I explored on the Harvard campus took me from my residence hall to neighbouring ones, and also from …
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(Policy of Truth) Another Night of Military Exercises Using Civilians as Human Shields
Not a joke headline. It happened the other day in Pasadena, California. It almost sounds like a comedy skit intended to unmask the hypocrisy of “Western” claims that Hamas uses “civilians as human shields.” We can’t, of course, be entirely sure of the military’s intentions here. The residents might not have been human shields; they…
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(Cat and Girl) A Brief History of Reviewing Things on the Internet, Vol. I
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Old age, youth, etc.
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! Pickles, 6/5/26 “We’re all gonna die eventually, but sometimes our ability to experience even basic pleasures dies before…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Another Night of Violent Protests” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Almost all news reporting on violence consists either of circumlocutions, metaphors, or sensationalized fixations. So we’re told that “violence erupted” somewhere rather than being told that it took place…
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