A hearty welcome to all from Durango Colorado! Look forward to commenting periodically on your initial posts this month before returning to join the fray.
Not ONE Michael Jackson post on the Duck?
It is reported that Michael Jackson is valiantly clinging to death.
Permit me to modestly (cough) point out that there is a Michael Jackson post, albeit a short one, on my blog. (Yes, I did split the infinitive, sorry.) Search on "Michael Jackson" or scroll down a little - I can't be bothered w/ doing the link.
In line with the fact that Michael Jackson basically stopped existing as anything other than a new media creature decades ago, I only tweeted and facebooked about his death and global-cultural funeral. Either that or I just couldn't be bothered to compose coherent paragraphs on the King of Pop while also composing coherent paragraphs on the real-but-unobservable causal properties of objects . . . you decide 
I almost wrote a post about how sad it is that Jackson's death, combined with Sanford's personal dramas, sucked most of the media attention away from the Iranian revolution last week. But then I decided, hey, I'm on vacation.
ProfPTJ, Isn't there something in Critical Realism about the causal properties of unreal-but-observable objects like Michael Jackson? Something about mass idiocy?
Ah, for the causal properties of unreal-but-observable objects you have to follow Bhaskar's recent spiritual turn and start looking at meta-Reality. And I am just not brave enough to do that.
"Something about mass idiocy?"
exactly.
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