Explaining Working Class Support For Donald

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
—    Norman Cousins
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On This Day In:
2016	Not In My Experience
2015	Effort
2014	Honest Wants
2013	Faith, n.
2012	Surprise Me
2011	Confused With Truth

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Tossers

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything.  Once God   —  or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance…  logic can be happily tossed out the window.
—    Stephen King
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2015	Hunger
2014	Outside Dependence
2013	Doing Right
2012	A Short Course In Human Relations
	If Death Be My Future
	Strive
	Such A Fool
2011	I’m Working For A Living

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Nothing So Far Removed

The long chains of simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult demonstrations, had led me to imagine that all things, to the knowledge of which man is competent, are mutually connected in the same way, and that there is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it, provided only we abstain from accepting the false for the true, and always preserve in our thoughts the order necessary for the deduction of one truth from another.
—    René Descartes
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On This Day In:
2013	Positions
2012	Two Errors
2011	Long Live The King!

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Of Anything

That which is incapable of proof itself is no proof of anything else.
—    Percy Bysshe Shelley
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On This Day In:
2013	Legal (Almost)
2012	Great Scots!
2011	The GI Bill – A Simple History Lesson
	Breaking Even

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