Yearly Archives: 2015

Ourobouros

January 6, 2015 – 5:17 pm

Have you heard of Poe’s Law? Wikipedia defines it thus: Poe’s law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is an Internet adage reflecting the idea that, without a clear indication of the author’s intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism. Now […]

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But Let Us Persevere In What We Have Resolved, Before We Forget

January 6, 2015 – 12:17 am

As far as the RSS data are concerned, the Great Pause continues. More here.

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The Road To Perdition

January 4, 2015 – 12:22 am

An old friend, who lives in California, writes: I spent hours on New Year’s Day attending online traffic school, and only passed by the skin of my teeth, as there was a serious language/grammar/thinking gap between me and the authors of the course. Here are just a few examples. I would have spent hours more […]

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Old Wine, New Bottle

January 3, 2015 – 12:59 am

The New Yorker‘s essayist Adam Gopnik — whom I have always considered to be quite lavishly talented, despite his dainty and epicene style — beclowned himself one minute into this New Year with a stupendously mawkish item on gun control. It is so bad, in fact — so completely barren of fact, rational argument, or […]

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