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There's an episode of Magnum where at the beginning he's talking about rainbows. Actually he talks about rainbows a lot. This one he's sitting on the beach with a date telling her about how his high school science teacher explained what a rainbow is but missed the magic of what a rainbow is subjectively. Personally I see art on both sides of that coin. Magnum...
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I don't really know why art is important to me. Is it something you can go without? I feel like I see it everywhere seeping through the cracks in the foundations of ten thousand things. It's not just the art you think of when you think of art. It's the art of small things. The art of things so vast they defy our imagination. The...
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So I was in line at Portland Nursery and I overhead this conversation.

guy - What about this?
other guy - What the hell do you need a machete for?
guy - Blackberries mostly.
other guy - Seriously! No one actually needs a machete. If you actually needed a machete you would be facing a much larger problem than needing a machete. Something would be...
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My wife and son were in the bay area for the weekend. I got close to four days alone. How fucking strange it is to be without your family. I never really had a sense of family growing up. Well I had a sense of family but that was more like fear and mistrust, wildly different from what the word family has come to mean...
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Fallacies of Authority

...related to debaters and audiences

* subjectivism: asserting a proposition as true simply because one wishes it to be true.
* appeal to authority: (argumentum ad verecundiam) citing an authority, who is incompetent or non-objective, in an attempt to gain support an argument, or citing an authority when the issue is not technical.
* quoting out of context: manipulating a quote either...
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I wonder if you still read this?
I wonder if you're still out there?
I wonder if you've forgiven me for freaking out on you?
Call me anyway...

I need to talk to you.

The Genius Of The Crowd
Charles Bukowski

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

those who preach god, need...
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The Genius Of The Crowd
Charles Bukowski

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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach...
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1.

Was there a need for the application Force?
2.

Was the relationship between the resistance and level of force proportional?
3.

Was the extent of the subjects injury proportional to the [subjects] level of resistance, threat to the officer or another individual?
4.

Was the force was applied in good faith, based upon the perceptions of a reasonably trained officer and the objectively reasonable...
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