On Violence
Graffito from Pompei, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is public domain. I try to avoid comment on current events at PBS because it’s outside the blog’s mandate and the kind of opinion is the...
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[Edited on the 16th Dec. to cull commas and sharpen the argument] There is a rhetorical quirk that, if it were common in any other circumstances would be so irrelevant as to preclude mention, but its...
View ArticleAn armed society is an ironic society
Robert A Heinlein, a science-fiction author that I have only a passing familiarity with, was either a melodramatic hack or a social critic of such Swiftian subtlety that he is mistaken for an...
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