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Kind of a Book Review: Thoughts on “Notes from the Underground” by Dostoyevski
Thoughts: “Notes from the Underground” by Dostoyevski NOTE: This is a discussion of the work without regard to spoilers or any such thing. Honestly, I’m not sure what I write below would spoil it for anyone, but don’t read it … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Governing the Body
Tagged Dostoevski, Literature, Notes from the Underground
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Trust and Aggression
So, trump has been reaming the US intelligence community non-stop as being full of utterly incompetent, “deep state” actors who are: Out to get him Willing to lie, fabricate evidence, and circumvent legal processes to spy on him because (1) … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Politics
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America and the Road to Rome
Spurred on by the illustrious philosoraptor, my general thoughts regarding America’s present political choices are: The “Progressive” Left remains very susceptible to: Its own hypocrisies (e.g. identifying as black instead of female) Its own religiosity (e.g. failure to sufficiently prostrate … Continue reading
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The American Dream and the State of the Union
What a time to be alive. It is interesting to find oneself in such a set of circumstances as those which presently face us while simultaneously making a concerted effort to note the near-ubiquity of similar lamentations throughout American history. … Continue reading
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Brief Issue Analysis: The Special Counsel’s Findings and Impeachment
With all the purported complexity and confusion out there on this subject, perhaps someone could correct me if I am incorrect. Being a layperson in terms of the law, I would be entirely unsurprised if I am incorrect, but here … Continue reading
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Fedora 29 / pgadmin4.3 Bug: ‘psycopg2.extensions.Column’ object has no attribute ‘_asdict’
There’s a bit of a lag in the Fedora RPMs from PostgreSQL’s repositories, so I thought I’d post this up in case anyone else out there runs into the error message in the subject of this post. To fix it … Continue reading
The Messiah
General Etymology and Significance Across all major denominations, modern Christianity proclaims that Jesus is the “Christ,” (Χριστός, “Christos” in Greek). The term was used to translate the Hebrew word מָשִׁיחַ (Mašíaḥ, messiah), which designates one who is “anointed.” This anointing is a … Continue reading
Pre-Mueller Report Position and Analysis
I was going to write this in response to a post over at the illustrious philosoraptor’s digs, but it is just too long to post in a series of comments. Also, I’ve been stewing over the general points for a … Continue reading
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Possible Bug: lvm2-2.02.175-1.fc27
So I just updated this package and rebooted my system. I encountered an interesting issue where one of my guest domain refused to start. Initial investigation of the system journal revealed messages like: systemd-udevd[775]: seq 3711 ‘/devices/virtual/block/dm-21’ is taking a … Continue reading
Actual Statistics: Seeing Through The Partisan “Gun Violence” Haze
So, just to be clear (though it’s not really relevant), I’m a gun owner. I have a single pistol. I don’t really understand why people often seem to own huge numbers of firearms, as it only seems to increase risk … Continue reading
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Engineering Walden 