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Daily Archives: December 25, 2016
French Banks Refuse Loans to National Front
From The Independent: French banks are refusing to give far-right leader Marine Le Pen a loan to help fund her presidential campaign. The leader of the French nationalist party National Front is struggling to obtain bank loans to finance her … Continue reading
RIP: Rick Parfitt
Status Quo is a band that, to paraphrase a cliché, is huge in Europe, but never made a dent in the States. For years, I’ve waited and hoped they’d play some shows in the States, but it has never happened. … Continue reading
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Lifeboat Ethics
From Derb, I learned of this decades-old article by Garrett Hardin, “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor” (Psychology Today, September 1974), which provides a useful thought experiment surrounding the problem of pathological altruism: So here we sit, say … Continue reading
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Merry Christmas from Woody Allen & the NYT
In the NYT (where else?), Woody Allen reviews “Mary Astor’s Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936”, by Edward Sorel. That the NYT decides to publish this on Christmas Day, presumably with Allen’s blessing (no pun intended), is … Continue reading
Argent – Christmas for the Free (1973)
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