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(QC RSS) X Versus O
Melon just wants to be inclusive
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(xkcd.com) Predicament
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Policy of Truth) American Dreamscape
I rarely work on Sundays, but had to go in today. On my way in, I meet a friend, a Spanish-speaking migrant who, like so many, does landscaping work in town. “I have to work today,” I complain. “I hate working Sundays.” It’s a tone-deaf comment. He’s off to work himself. ”I work every day,”…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) World of Animals VIII
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! “Welcome to World of Animals, an occasional feature; I’m your beloved host Carl, now AI-enhanced! (Although I’m not…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Resistance in Action (3) by Resistance in Action (4) | Policy of Truth
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Resistance in Action (2) by Resistance in Action (4) | Policy of Truth
[…] That’s not what I said. My point was not that the resolution doesn’t indicate who residents should call, but (as a separate point) that it’s not clear whether anyone within municipal government can be reached by phone in real time during an I…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on ‘Town Topics’: PR as Journalism by Resistance in Action (4) | Policy of Truth
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(Policy of Truth) Resistance in Action (4)
More Botched Reporting from Town Topics In an earlier post here, I took issue with Town Topics’s defective reporting on the ITA municipal resolution campaign in Princeton. In quoting exclusively from members of the Princeton Council in its reporting on the July 28 Council meeting, I argued, the paper functioned essentially as a PR mouthpiece…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Get along, little Chrysomallon squamiferum, and never you roam …
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! So ends the Comics Curmudgeon Summer Fundraiser. For more than 20 years, through economic crises, the collapse of…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, August 15, 2025 (On Latin Pronunciation)
Hey folks, Fireside this week! The new semester is starting up next week, so things may be a little more fireside-y than usual over the next few weeks, but I do promise we will get to the end of “Life, Work, Death and the Peasant” eventually. That said, since I am teaching Latin rather than…
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