Paulosophical Vimplications

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• WHY THE FULL ENGLISH IS SO WIDELY SAVOURED

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  I’ve already commented in this blog that behind my wife’s blonde exterior there be dragons. Not in the sense that she’s any more dangerous than the Lilith of the Apocrypha. Rather it’s the quirky things that attract her considerable research… Read More ›

• MY BELOVED MARJORIE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  For those of you who’ve been following this blog long enough to have detected a gradual drift from my erstwhile Marxist roots towards the Alt-Right, be advised that I’ve just taken leave of both my wife and my senses and… Read More ›

• IN MEMORIUM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Today, January 27, marks the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps at Auschwitz. There weren’t a whole lot of people left there to be liberated. And of those who were there aren’t a whole lot still alive… Read More ›

• WHO GETS A DEPARTMENT OF THEIR OWN?

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 27, 2021 • ( 2 )

  I know there are people because I’ve met some. But I’m not sure I’ve ever met a people. A people, I’m told, is a collection of people, but not just any collection of people. It has to be of people… Read More ›

• HOW TO MAINTAIN ONE’S MORAL INNOCENCE NOW THAT SILENCE IS VIOLENCE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 27, 2021 • ( 3 )

  We wouldn’t have to go back too many generations to realise that every one of us is the product of rape. That every one of us is the product of incest. That every one of us is both the descendant… Read More ›

• SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 25, 2021 • ( 7 )

  Thomas Hobbes tells us that in the state of nature, as distinct from that of civil society, “the life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Which is not to say the same can’t be said of some… Read More ›

• RUMMAGING

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 24, 2021 • ( 1 )

  The other day I happened to be looking out the window and I noticed someone in the alley rummaging through our garbage. He wasn’t one of, you know, those people. He was wearing a suit and a tie. And so,… Read More ›

• THREE WAYS TO DEFANG THE MOB

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 24, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Now that the Woke have achieved ascendency in the current public discourse – and topped itself off by joining in with the ‘cancel culture’ – the time has come for those of us who’ve yet to convert to their new… Read More ›

• LITTLE MOMENTS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Back in my misspent youth I met a young woman who told me a story I have no reason to think she made up. She was hitchhiking from Santa Barbara to San Francisco. She’d been standing with no luck for… Read More ›

• NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 23, 2021 • ( 3 )

  I have a theory – I won’t bore you with the details – according to which I am Napoleon Bonaparte. And since I have no recollection of having abdicated, that makes me the Emperor of France.  Why am I not… Read More ›

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