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13.0.11.4.19 – Feb 01 2024 – 01/02/24
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13.0.4.6.6 at first glance
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” — David Hume I must be misunderstanding what Hume is saying, because on the face of it I couldn’t disagree with him more. Replace “reason” with “motivation” or “justification”…
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13.0.3.10.19 The Education System
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13.0.3.5.14 A Plenitude of Parasites
I’m listening to tonight’s Republican town hall meeting in Wisconsin. I like Cruz. He’s a Constitutionalist and gives considerate answers to the questions he’s asked. But his answers are too slick, too packaged not to offend. I like Trump. But I don’t trust him. On the one hand, when he answers the questions he…
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13.0.3.4.4 Public Education
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Dear China
…Fuck off. A thousand years of “culture” and “civilization” and all you’ve accomplished is the skill of acquiring and keeping power. Eating dogs is still acceptable to you; you’re driving species to extinction because you think that certain body parts are aphrodisiacs medicinal. I may wind up in some Chinese prison camp in the not…
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We Are All Bradley Manning
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Climate Change
This climate change debate annoys me. Although “debate” isn’t quite what’s happening here. There is no debate. There’s the officially sponsored side shouting down anyone who opposes them. It saddens me that so many people are still falling for officialdom’s lies. I mean, I can’t even get a weather report that’s accurate for more than…
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SWAT TEAMS
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Why Are American Health Care Costs So High?