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Sarcasm Ain’t in the Bible, and Ain’t New Age
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Old Man Miffed at Young Radical
seanessay.com …that many people will find shocking. If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn’t written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial… Paul Graham Putting Ideas Into Words November […]
Even Communists Crave Christmas Carols
seanessay.com Enjoying the Yuletide, I once spent three whole days listening to a local rock station which every December becomes “your Christmas music station.” That was a big mistake, for amongst the overplayed tawdry tinsel songs were… no Christmas carols at all. I clued in: That nice station, in our secular society, has a policy […]
Beaming Down From the Essay ship to Fiction
seanessay.com It’s my blog anniversary, I’ve crafted 250 essays, hurray! Time to reflect. Why would a plain working-world guy like me write essays? And why do university student write them? In this exciting new decade, why wouldn’t we all just use Artificial “Intelligence” to write things for us? A retired professor’s blog, Orange Crate Art, […]
The Reason the US of A is Polarized
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