PF is caught between two opposing forces. The first is community-based lay judging. This feature helps avoid the false-logic style of debating that infects policy and LD to some degree; you end up with long chains of evidence that are fine for a flowpad, but the end result is simply untrue — increasing health care [...]
I was born and raised in New England, and I like the winters here. My family originally comes from even further north, the shores of the Gulf of St Lawrence. So there was little chance I was going to enjoy a trip to Birmingham, AL, for four days, in the middle of June. 95 degree [...]
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It’s my site. Stuff on here is by me, not by you. There are many ways to create a site that is by you and reply to anything I’ve said there. If you want to surrender control of your site to complete strangers to post commentary, [...]
So I spilled over a little in frustration the other day. I stand by that; I for one don’t believe that the Internet is Different and a little spilled-over truth and honestly is a bad thing. Some flinch from it instinctively but I don’t see demons behind every byte online. Well, demons any different than [...]
So I’m no longer the MFL president, hallelujah hallelujah. After NCFLs, I was totally wiped; the week prior work — largely, me — had organized a two day workshop and symposium that required my full attention, and then immediately afterward (during, in fact) I ran off to Albany, for another five days requiring my full [...]