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Daily Archives: December 5, 2024
Why do men fear women? (12-5-24)
01:00 After his bad fall and back surgery three weeks ago, Dennis Prager can now mouth words, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15809902:00 Julie Hartman gives a Dennis Prager health update, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eKsYFLicmM03:00 Parasocial interaction, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction20:30 Commentary magazine crew on the trans debate before the Supreme … Continue reading
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Dennis Prager Can Now Mouth Words
In a video released Dec. 2, Julie Hartman says she spent eight hours in the hospital with Dennis. “So many of you are asking for information… All we want is information. This is going to be weeks, months for him … Continue reading
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How Bodies Read and Write: Dostoevsky’s Demons and Coetzee’s Master of Petersburg
Michael Kochin wrote a chapter in the 2013 book, Dostoevsky’s Political Thought: The writer must give up his soul in order to write. He must give up his soul to become the body writing. To write Stavrogin, then, the writer … Continue reading
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From Argument To Assertion
Michael S. Kochin writes in Argumentation 23, No. 3 (August 2009).: There are, however, two fundamental rhetorical difficulties with laying out one’s premises, reasoning, and conclusions. Since arguments are anticlimactic if they are explicit, the speaker who is excessively explicit … Continue reading
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Trust & Evidence on the Internet
Michael S. Kochin published this essay in Rhêtorikê: Revista Digital de Retórica 0 (March 2008): First, newspapers and television don’t have footnotes. Even newspaper science reporting and editorials, both of which almost always rely on other reporting, do not use … Continue reading
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