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• TRUMP, VOLTAIRE, AND EDMUND BURKE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  In real estate it all comes down to location, location, location. In comedy it’s all about timing. Put the two together and that’s all that can be said about one’s own take on the world. From the here and now,… Read More ›

• AN ALIEN PERSPECTIVE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Three score and eight years ago I landed on this planet, but I think it might have been from another one. I say this because I understand so little of why humans think as they do, and they seem to… Read More ›

• THINGS THAT DON’T BEAR THINKING ABOUT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  There are certain thought experiments that ought not to be performed. Here’s one: Does the visceral reaction we all have about the Shoah – and by ‘all’ I mean we Jews and you Gentiles alike – have a best-before date?… Read More ›

• THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE WORLD

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Once upon a time – or outside of it, if we’re to have it Boethius’ way – having nothing else to do, God decided to conjure in His mind all the worlds He could bring into being were He so… Read More ›

• THE PERILS OF PATTER

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 1 )

  Given the number of times a politician’s heart goes out to the families of this tragedy or of that, one wonders whether it ever stays home. This kind of patter isn’t as innocent as it might appear. It’s not that… Read More ›

• IT WAS ALL FAKE!

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  I knew it was bound to happen, but I was floored by the speed with which it did. Even before the last of the boys and their coach emerged safely from the cave – indeed even before the rescue operation… Read More ›

• RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT PAASD

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  There’s yet to be a scientific consensus on the frequency of alien abduction. But there’s already data indicating that the frequency of reports of alien abduction – as evidenced by the number of confirmed cases of Post-Alien Abduction Stress Disorder… Read More ›

• DESIDERATA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  What Donald Trump has done, both during the campaign and in the year and a half since, is tapped into the backlash against both political correctness and what’s correct politically. The backlash against political correctness was long overdue. In saying… Read More ›

• CURMUDGEONISM # 643 – ON THE HIJACKING OF SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Am I answerable for what was said in Curmudgeonism # 618 (below) when it’s entirely possible I didn’t write it? The technology is now such that anyone with a little savvy can hijack your blog or social media account and… Read More ›

• CURMUDGEONISM # 618 – OF YO, YA, AND TARDS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  It’s a little known fact – probably because it isn’t one – that as well as its gendered third person pronouns – he and his, she and hers – for a long time English had gendered second person pronouns. If… Read More ›

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