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Addictive substances: liquor, tobacco and gasoline (47).
— Nov 08, 2026 06:56PM
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Chapter 10 feels divided by exasperation with the Bush-Cheney administration. Five fragments (95-102).
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The lesson of Ignaz Semmelweis is life is thankless (84-85).
— Nov 08, 2026 11:21PM
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Is “persuasive guessing” one of my favorite satires of rhetoric (77)?
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“The highest treason is to say Americans are not loved no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there” (74).
— Nov 08, 2026 10:58PM
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Chp 3: Vonnegut’s iconic lecture about how we can’t tell the good news from the bad news in great stories. We should value truth, and truth is ambiguous, meaning that while it doesn’t have the mass appeal of racial stereotypes or happy horseshit, it has the long shelf life of verisimilitude (43).
— Nov 03, 2026 07:23AM