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About Those Inkblots
Yesterday I posted a short (for me) essay about a classic comedy bit involving inkblots in which a psychiatrist gives a patient a Rorschach test and no matter what the image was he responded he thought about sex!
At the conclusion of the e...
Sunday Afternoon Rorschach Thinking
There is classic comedy bit involving inkblots that goes back quite a ways and has many permutations and combinations, but it generally goes something like this:
A psychiatrist gives a patient a Rorschach test:
Doctor: “What do you...
America the Confused
I don’t like what we have become.
And when I say “we”, I mean Americans in general.
I don’t want an America divided by class no matter how “class” is defined. I’m not a racist, a xenophobe, a bigot, or a “Christo-facist” (whatever that is...
Ideological Puritanical Libertinism
I was doing some research based on the phrase I used in an essay this past week - ideological puritanical libertinism - to describe how progressives seem to talk out of both sides of their mouths about freedom and governance, promising free...
The Arrogance of Starting Over
Some traditions are important, the trick is to know which ones matter.
I grew up in an era where rail transport was already in decline – but we still had regular freight services along several railways next to pastures of ours and those of...
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