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Who Are the True Deep State?

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A friend just stopped by a little earlier, a little exasperated du=e t the fact that, where we live, the average price of gasoline is now $4.50 a gallon. That may cause some to laugh at the predicament but energy costs are becoming a factor all over the country. It’s not just California anymore, but little old Arizona, where I live. And if it’s $4.50 here in Tucson, You can bet in outlying cities and towns it’s over $5.00 a gallon. What has caused this to occur? Aren’t we a “net exporter” of oil and natural gas?

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The Epistemological Intersectionality of Postmodernism

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I was recently in a conversation on Twitter about, well, I’m not sure exactly, because it was so loaded with what was described at one point as academic language, that I had to read some of the posts twice before I think I understood what was being discussed. I actually replied that I wished people would start using English. There was actually some agreement with that response. I mean, in one tweet, someone referred to steelmanning, word I had never seen used before. It was used in a way to indicate an accusation made against the person tweeting. After looking it up, I discovered it was a way of taking an opponents strongest argument, and using that to refute their thesis. Now  I’ve bored myself.

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