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It’s tempting to mention bread and circuses here, except there’s no bread... Michelle Goldberg

Unexpected result. Ngrams: cladistic.

ngrams: hermeneutic

Second Superman movie better than the first, 1980.

ngrams: “heuristic”

ngrams: “epistemics”

An idea about “coincidence” — that it’s meaningless, yet a good sign. The more engaged with life you are, the more you find yourself experiencing coincidence.

Tu quoque, specific kind of ad hominem argument, and useful concept. Example:

Alice: Smoking is associated with chronic health disorders. You shouldn’t smoke.
Bob: But you smoke yourself. So much for your argument!

Bob reasons that because Alice is being hypocritical, her statement about the effects of smoking must be false. But the truth of Alice’s claim has no connection to whether or not she is a hypocrite.

avoir beau French expression, to do something in vain.

“To be is to be the value of a variable,” Willard Quine

Hm. “Glue” and “Gluten” related.

Good round up of Trump’s corruption. AP.

“The Chians are bad; not just this one or that one – they’re all bad, except for Procles; and Procles is a Chian.” (*)

I’m afraid this might be right: “The Boomers were good. It’s the Gen Xers who went crazy.”

Dunnage (thinking of the third definition): personal effects; baggage.

“Two people dead, just so we can live without working, why?” … Gun Crazy

Family “Music In A Dolls House” 1968 vinyl full album.

Hazel Dickens: American bluegrass singer, characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs.

Karoo: “The Karoo formed an almost impenetrable barrier to the interior from Cape Town, and the early adventurers, explorers, hunters, and travelers on the way to the Highveld unanimously denounced it as a frightening place of great heat, great frosts, great floods, and great droughts.”

Gedankenexperiment… thought experiment. (Curious that an English language paper would not just say ‘thought experiment.’)