Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I’m assuming Dune wasn’t laughably bad, like Picard, otherwise hardly anybody would know about it.

* FWIW, some interpreters think Hamlet’s capture by the pirates was actually a pre-arranged rescue. His speech at the end of Act III shows that he was already expecting treachery on the voyage, and “When in one line two crafts directly mee…

Feel free to believe this or not, but just about everyone who knows me well–friends, wives, ex’s–knows of my long history of altercations with the cops. Many of these altercations have taken place during my nocturnal rambles in local parks. Cops often claim that the parks “close,” and are willing to hassle anyone walking in…

[…] blogged before (see here, here, and here) about the influence of the Dune series on Star Wars. But I’ve recently reread […]

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