Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Distasteful Friday
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Blondie, 5/22/26 The sad thing here is that Alexander and Cookie can’t actually hear what Dagwood is jamming…
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(xkcd.com) Neutrino Project
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Tomasi and Flier on “Commencement Neutrality” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Young. Apparently, MLK went on a speaking tour that began in April and continued into June: UCLA, Oberlin, Antioch, and the University of the West Indies (Jamaica), among others. It’s interesting that the non-commencement spee…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Tomasi and Flier on “Commencement Neutrality” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Young. I don’t think either of my cases are hard. They’re paradigms of the commencement speech genre. King’s Oberlin speech is a paradigm at the high end, and Peterson’s is more ordinary. But I will write up …
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(The GiveWell Blog) Podcast Episode 30: What a Decade of Iron Funding Has Taught Us
Anemia, which is commonly caused by iron deficiency, can cause fatigue, cognitive impairment, and complications during pregnancy—and it affects roughly a quarter of the world’s population. Over the last decade, GiveWell has directed nearly $50 million to programs to address this health issue. Because of the large number of people affected and the low cost…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Tomasi and Flier on “Commencement Neutrality” by Michael Young
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. MLK gave the commencement speech at Antioch College on June 19th, 1965 (in my hometown, Yellow Springs, OH), five days after the Oberlin address. Probably quite similar in content to the Oberlin speech (literally “woke&…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Josh goes OFF
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Mother Goose and Grimm, 5/21/26 OK, I guess I respect the Mother Goose and Grimm entries where the…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Hallucinated that
New comic!Today’s News: You can still late pledge in our 2026 Kickstarter. Find it here: tinyurl.com/2wjw2bw6You can now read Exorsisters on Pixie Trix Comix! Check the nav bar!Subscribe to the Spice Rack newsletter here!Want printe…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Tomasi and Flier on “Commencement Neutrality” by Michael Young
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. It seems right that, in not considering the precise case you brought up (and some other similar ones), Tomasi and Flier have failed to hammer out a good, explicit case. “Here’s my view and here’s how it deal…
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