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A Simple Request for a Level Playing Field
“Fighting monsters is the easy part. Back home is where the really scary stuff is.” ― Noelle Stevenson, Lumberjanes, Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan The relentless march towards Christmas continues, even as I fail to engage. It’s a strange… Read More ›
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Objects In the Mirror May Be Further Away Then They Appear
“If it’s a choice between a difficult truth and a simple lie, people will take the lie every time. Even if it kills them.” ― Paul Murray It’s been a difficult week, but not for the suspected reasons. This… Read More ›
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What’s Behind The Curtain
“I believe it is worth writing to remind ourselves of what we can’t know. To remind ourselves that certainty is dangerous. That factual knowledge of the world casts only a small light. Fiction is necessary because it seems to me… Read More ›
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There Are No Stupid Questions…Only Political Objections
“It offended her that the past could intrude so literally on the present yet never return.” ― James Hannaham, Delicious Foods This is one of those weeks where I struggle to identify who presents the biggest threat – those… Read More ›
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No Peace In The Valley
“But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they’ll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you… Read More ›
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Same Monkeys At the Wheel
“People who say, ‘Let the chips fall where they may,’ usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.” ― Bernard Williams You walk outside your house and see a monkey driving erratically in a blue car. You… Read More ›
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Will We Ever Develop A Stomach For Honest Conversation?
“Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do,’ Arkadian Porpirych says. ‘What statistic allows one to identify the nations where literature enjoys true consideration better than the sums appropriated for controlling it and… Read More ›
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One More Time Around the Mulberry Bush
“For the first time, he truly understood what Nietzsche had meant when he had yammered about looking into abysses. Not only had the abyss looked into him, it had noted his name, address and shoe size.” ― Jonathan L. Howard,… Read More ›
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Of Clear Eyes and Pure Hearts
“Prohibitions, trust me, only encourage bad behaviour.” ― Tom Holland, Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar “This cataract has gotten rather large,” the eye doctor said while examining my right eye, “How’d it get so… Read More ›
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Thinking Ought to Trump Believing
“Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.” ― Willard Van Orman Quine More and more we seem to begin our public discussions by staking… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 