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Fitting since it basically completed a life-work/cycle which began more or less with the Apology. Let me try something here. It's kind of off the top of my head, but it might bring this interesting digression back to the origins of this thread. To me, the Apology is above all an indictment of...

I've always had quite personal feelings about hair growth:eek: and season changes sometimes give me migraines:( Genus: Ideas Species: metaphors, metonymy, synecdochy, irony.... The only vehicles for both: words:cool: Speaking of metaphors, find the link: A spectre is haunting Europe — the...

The art of the rhetorician is precisely to make us see this relationship, or more precisely to agree that there is a relationship. There is a relationship between life and my hair. Both start off small and then get bigger. Eventually, my hair gets cut off just like my life gets cut off. Not as...

I share your fascination. However, I would go one step forever: rhetoric is all there is, especially (but not exclusively) when the object of discussion is the social, the personal, the political, and so on. There is no beyond discourse, no vantage point (neutral, absolute, "true") from which...

Parenthesis - poetry vs rhetoric Open parentheses: Sorry couldn't let this one go by without comment. Even though it has nothing to do with the minority governments, it is nevertheless remotely à propos. The problem with most theoreticians is that they fail to see that their discourse is...

Sounds a bit like 5th-century Athens to me, the cradle of democracy (not to mention the possibility of going to symposia, those thinly disguised orgies). Although they did manage to botch things big time all the same. I gave up on voting a very long time ago, even though in a former life I was...

EB, It seems to me that what is worse than a run-on sentence is one that doesn’t answer the original question, which I would have gladly answered, taking all the care necessary to think it through, or at least as much as I can between phone calls and people popping their heads in my office to...

Absolutely nothing Infrastructures will no doubt deteriorate because no decisions will be made (in the short term at least). But this would have happened anyway. Not at all. Is this one question or two? It is unclear (to this tout anyway) that the stability of the Quebec government...

It would be more appropriate to say "convincingly" rather than "legitimately." The nuance is important, and not just a case of splitting. To the extent that the PQ genuinely believes that it is in the best interests of Quebec to be independent, then its claim its legitimate. That they have a...

While I won't entirely disagree with you, I am not sure that the referendum issue is the whole story. My sense is that one of the major reasons why the PQ slipped into third place is that it couldn't hold on to the "progressive" elements of its consitutuency (greens and lefties), who turned to...

Hmmm, un petit partie pris ici, n'est-ce pas? Pour ce qui est des bons coups au fils du temps, je dirais ça fait un très long bout de temps qu'on n'en a pas eus. Ce qui renforce ce que je dis plus haut.

More productive in terms of what? Would you mind elaborating? Especially in light of you subsequent comment, viz: What this essentially means is that no major initiatives will be undertaken or advanced in a rational way since decisions will be made either as bribes or as blackmail...

As a few people have pointed out, there are lots of shades of grey here, so except to say that my reaction would definitely not be one of moral disapproval, the answer cannot be straightforward. Other things being equal, if my child were turning tricks on St. Hubert Street for $20 and a...

Couldn't agree more. It's not really hypocrisy. It's what David Hume called limited intensive benevolence; i.e., our moral judgment of people is a function of how close they are to us (Adam Smith also talks about this in the Theory of Moral Sentiments). This being said, the real problem I...

Plate no. CML TOE perhaps?

Give a little tingle to his dingle! BJ technique - the Tingler One of the beauties of this trick is that it requires little pre-planning and its’ main ‘ingredient’ can be found in most household bathroom, enabling this little element of surprise to be available whether you’re at his house or...

What's the difference between choices 2 and 3? For what it's worth, it doesn't bother me as long as I know about it.

I agree with the first sentence. However, there are services and there are services. There’s sticking your cock into a warm and wet place and then there’s turning the session into a work of art. In short, what I usually pay for is a zipless fuck with an interesting and hopefully interested (if...

MakeIt You have hit the nail squarely on the head. The question of why married men resort to Sps is a no-brainer; it does not merit discussion. To even entertain the question is to lend it unwarranted credibility, especially when moral considerations are thrown into the mix. The infidelity...

How about: J.C. Zuniga-Pfucker (a real name, see the citation below). Title: Heterogeneity among DN1 prothymocytes reveals multiple progenitors with different capacities to generate T cell and non-T cell lineages Journal: IMMUNITY, 20 (6): 735-745 JUN 2004 Citations: 49 Authors: Porritt...