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Toronto lawyer, former journalist, sometime musician. Convert to Oxford comma. Posts are personal opinions, not legal advice. Reposts aren't endorsements.
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Can’t it be both?
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I wasn’t aware of that. I certainly don’t follow any Nazis. Substack is the only place to read Wells, who is one of the top political reporters in Canada, in my opinion anyway.
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“We have learned from our history….” Sick burn. The question is whether Rubio will have any idea what he’s referring to.
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Substack. I’m a subscriber to Wells, but this piece might be free, I’m not sure.
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Paul Wells has a good item on this subject today. I know not everyone will agree. But I think his logic is hard to refute.
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Hard disagree. I am a fan of Carney’s and I’m hoping for the best, but a guy who did not win a majority government is not in the position to play vindictive games with his opponents. As he said: “No games.” And that’s the right response in my view.
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That was it!
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I read a Gore profile about 15 years ago in which he was enthusiastic about Habermas, having just discovered him. He’s had plenty of time to trace JH back to his roots.
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This is why it’s better to just avoid US travel (if you can) until sanity returns.
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He’ll be replaced with Jesse Watters, just watch.
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“Warns”
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I see what you did there.
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These days, the word “performative” is usually associated with Judith Butler. But Catharine Mackinnon has a section on the implications of Austin’s argument in Only Words, from the mid-90s. She uses it to support her argument that pornography is not simply expression. It’s also an act.
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Having said that, Austin loved language and loved to explore its permutations. I suspect he would be fascinated by the way in which the term “performative“ has changed its meaning over time.
How to Do Things With Words is one of my favourite works of philosophy. Everyone should read it! /end
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And that’s what led him to introduce the concept of the illocutionary force of an utterance: the aspect of an utterance that actually does something rather than merely state or describe something. 3/n
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But Austin’s argument, then took a surprising turn. He originally started out, hoping to delineate the difference between “constative“ and “performative” utterances. But he then argued that the distinction broke down: *all* utterances have a performative aspect. 2/n
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Not even that. When Austin first talked about “performative utterances”in the lectures that became How to Do Things With Words, he meant utterances that don’t simply describe something, they also constitute an act, e.g. “I hereby pronounce you man and wife”. 1/n
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Good luck with that.
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I think the move to free jazz in the '60s was an outgrowth of the idea, sparked by bop, that jazz was to be considered art music, not pop. But these trends are never straightforward. There are alway lots of things going on at once right?, After all, Kind of Blue was and is hugely popular.
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True, and hard bop and soul jazz were strong attempts to get the music back on less cerebral ground -- and that's not to mention the huge Brazilian craze of the early '60s. But the damage (i.e. the damage to jazz as a truly pop form) was done. People had moved on to country, R'n'B, and then R'n'R.
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Jazz ceased to be at the center of American music because the be-boppers weren't interested in being pop musicians. Don't get me wrong, I like bop a lot, but isn't that pretty much it? Once you had to listen carefully and work to understand what was going on, the mass audience lost interest.
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There's still time to turn around.
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Hardly.
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Exactly.
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This just shows how little Vance understands economics. The biggest losers of the trade war will be American consumers.
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Too bad his site is down.
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They could have asked Chris Christie.
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The obvious intent here is to provoke someone into doing something stupid, which would give the US an excuse to take some sort of military action. The Greenlanders should just ignore them. No one should meet them, no one should talk to them. Just let them wander around and get cold and go home.
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This is a point Goldberg makes in the article.
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I just saw her the other night on the opening night of her current tour. Really amazing.
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It’s a feature, not a bug.
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When the history of this era is written from a more detached perspective years from now, it will be clear to those who write it that the seeds of fascism started to sprout in the GOP long before Trump. But sure, as a strategic matter it’s probably best not to emphasize that now.
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As I said above, I voted for him. I want him to win. That’s why I don’t want him to mess up questions like this and give the other side an opening.
No politician is well-served by supporters who think everything they do must be applauded.
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To me, he seemed both flustered by the questions and arrogant — a terrible combo. Remember John Turner trying to deal with PET’s patronage appointments?
If he doesn’t find a way to dispense with this issue now, it will dog him all through the campaign. Wait and see.
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Look, it was a terrible moment for Carney. I watched it and winced, and I voted for the guy.
Whoever is working with him had better teach him how to deal with this kind of question and fast. The media are not the enemy. They're asking questions on behalf of the public. You know -- the voters.
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They really shouldn't, because all he's really saying is: don't worry, we'll give it a veneer of constitutionality when it gets to us.
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I don't think that was much of a hammer.
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Too little, too late.
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Can’t it be both?
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Actually, it looks like Truscott isn’t here yet. I just assumed he was.
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If you follow Lucian V. Truscott IV here, you might well enjoy his first novel, Dress Gray (1979), a novel about a mysterious death at West Point. It’s a page-turner. As a bonus, one of the bad guys is clearly modelled on Al Haig, who was an administrator at West Point when Truscott was there.
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By that logic, Trump used to be an American, but now he’s Russian.
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“Insanity is not a strategy.”
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She is 27 years old and has no idea how the world works. She will be remembered similarly to how Benedict Arnold is currently remembered, but right now she is too clueless to understand that. Sad.
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You understand, don’t you, that this is *exactly* the same kind of rhetoric Communist regimes used for decades to try to pacify their people?