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Wednesday, 18 December 2024

How Bulk Discounts Demonstrate the Regressivity of Money

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     Some years ago I posted An Invisible Inequality  here about how the buying power of a dollar isn't equal. Someone with more dollars...
Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Terrorism and hate crimes as speech acts

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I used to be a bit puzzled at the ideas of terrorism and hate crimes as specific criminal offences. After all, weren’t acts of violence alre...
Wednesday, 10 July 2024

Against Presidential Immunity

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    Some years ago I wrote a piece, on my oooold  personal web page, discussing the case of a farmer who had killed his severely disabled da...
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Saturday, 9 September 2023

The Arrogance of Common Sense

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      I know I haven't posted here in quite a while. It often happens that I have an idea for something I might want to write here, and ...
Thursday, 21 April 2022

For Your Consideration

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     Some questions were raised about a parenthetical remark in a previous post , about preferring a minimum income to a minimum wage, that...
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Monday, 4 April 2022

False Flags

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    Every once in a while I see a meme shared that purports to be a letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who was Canada's 7th Prime Minister...
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Wednesday, 16 March 2022

The Nameless Fallacy

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    I haven't seen this particular fallacy described elsewhere. It happens often enough that I was thinking it ought to have a name, and...
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