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19 Dec

Posted at 06:00h in Uncategorized
This will be my last post of 2016, but after a brief hiatus I'll be back on January 16. If our current state of national uncertainty tips further into crisis and I feel I have something to write of use, hiatus or not, I'll hit the keyboard running; those of who you subscribe to the blog will receive any such interim posts automatically.

05 Dec

Posted at 06:00h in Uncategorized
Socrates is believed to have said, "The misuse of language induces evil in the soul." Well, I don't believe in "evil" per se, or in the "soul," for that matter. But I do believe in Socrates, and I believe even more in language, and in how language reveals itself—and us—by the manner in which we use or misuse it.

21 Nov

Posted at 06:00h in Uncategorized
Each time you think, My god, surely it can't sink lower, there's a new cabinet appointment or tweet, and you plummet down further.