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Ignatius Reilly as the Knight of Faith

Available at Amazon.com — Amazon.ca — Amazon.co.uk — Barnes  & Noble — Indigo.ca — Indi Bound — Kobo — and last but not least, if you want to take advantage of a 30% discount (code available here), go to Rowman & Littlefield. Extract from chapter 6 — W. Kenneth Holditch a confederacy of duncesBoethiusJohn Kennedy Toolephilosophical…

Holy Smoke

If you like your single malts on the peaty Islay side of things, then you’ll enjoy this brew by Church-Key Brewery. It is a delicious dark ale that distinctively utilizes Scottish peat-smoked whisky malt. I’d best describe this as “comfort beer”. I can easily imagine it as a lifting ingredient in all styles of winter…

The Consolation of Dunces

Available via Amazon.com — Amazon.ca — Amazon.co.uk — Barnes  & Noble — Indigo.ca — Indi Bound — Kobo — and last but not least, if you want to take advantage of a 30% discount code, available here), go directly to Rowman & Littlefield. Extract from Chapter 5 — Stephen Utz a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical…

Al Jaffee: 99 not out

Guardian article from 4 years ago. MAD has long-since lost it’s “humourific” mojo but Jaffee never lost his. I treasure his Snappy Answers collection. al jaffeehumourmad magazinesatire

Bounded Rationality in the Digital Age

The fifteenth in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Peter E. Earl One of the great tragedies in economics in the decades since Simon received the 1978 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is that the uptake of his ideas within the discipline…