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    Aleppo

    Allepo, before and during “regime change.”

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 8, 2016
    • Militarism, Totalitarianism, War is a Racket

    Argument Clinic: Some Terminology

    I frequently use fencing terms in Argument Clinic. That’s because fencing has a lot of

    Is this the right room for an argument?

    Is this the right room for an argument?

    the same properties as a battle of words. There are a lot of useful words from the school of the rhetoricians, but I would feel weird saying, “nice anadiplosis.” Because my opponent might reply, “gesundheit!”

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 8, 2016
    • Argument Clinic

    Did Someone Say “Soap”???!?!?!?

    After reading Caine’s post about the Standing Rock Camp, I felt kind of frantic: I want to do something but my instincts are not the right ones for this situation. Other than throw money in the money-bucket, which I’ve already done, I … ugh.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 8, 2016
    • Art, Burn it to the ground

    Alternative History

    Chiitaanibah Johnson of California State University, Sacramento says she was disenrolled from her U.S. History class for disagreeing with her professor over the existence of North American genocide.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 7, 2016
    • Argument Clinic, Philosophy, Politics, Propaganda, Totalitarianism

    Making a Soap Mold

    Caine wrote about a tragic incident in which a cop shot a volunteer to death, because they used a real gun in a training exercise, and – it was loaded. That’s incredibly stupid, especially since you can get really nice poly rubber training guns on Amazon.com for $25.

    And then I remembered stories about prisoners carving guns out of soap to try to fool guards into freeing them.. ..

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 7, 2016
    • Art

    Things That Delight Me: 6 – Poe’s Tales

    This is another wonderful, beautiful artifact that you can get on ebay or amazon’s rare book search for not a huge amount of money (between $25 and $250). It’s a great gift if you know someone with goth sensibilities…

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 6, 2016
    • Things That Delight Me

    In Which I Discover the Banana Squid …

    I’m a fan of the fundamentally flawed category of games known as “space sandbox” – Elite Dangerous and No Man’s Sky are the current two leaders, with Star Citizen in a state of apparent endless alpha test. I hope someone eventually writes a book about the making of Star Citizen, though I fear it will be like “Hearts of Darkness” for gaming.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 5, 2016
    • Art, Gaming

    Monday Meslier: 193 – It Is Not True That Atheism Sunders All The Ties of Society

    Atheism, we are told, breaks all social ties. Without belief in God, what becomes of the sacredness of the oath?

    Jean Meslier Portrait

    Jean Meslier

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 5, 2016
    • Monday Meslier

    Sunday Sermon: In Defense of Anarchism (3)

    The Conflict Between Authority and Autonomy

    The defining mark of the state is authority, the right to rule. The primary obligation of man is autonomy, the refusal to be ruled. It would seem, then, the there can be no resolution of the conflict between the autonomy of the individual and the putative authority of the state.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 4, 2016
    • Philosophy, Politics, Sunday Sermon

    No Till/GMO – 5 “THE RUSSIANS STRIKE BACK”

    Today I took a close close look at the corn.

    Since I’m pretty allergic to corn pollen, it was definitely a bad idea.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 3, 2016
    • Art, Cyberwar
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