Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Mostly kind Sunday
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! Crock, 6/1/25 Imagine if you petitioned Almighty God for a full accounting of all the evil you’ve done…
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(Policy of Truth) Kalven’s Complicit Executioners
I’ve previously mentioned that I’ll be giving a presentation on institutional neutrality at the Heterodox Academy Conference in Brooklyn a couple of weeks from now, Tuesday, June 24th. I have yet to write the paper up, but here’s the abstract, below. I’d be interested in/grateful for any comments, questions, objections, etc. I’ll probably be posting…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Saturday quickies
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! Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/31/25 Wait, is something happening in Rex Morgan, M.D.? Is something interesting happening in Rex…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, May 30, 2025 (On Professional Military Education)
Hey all, we’re doing a Fireside this week! For this week’s musing, I thought it might be worthwhile – this being a frequent space for military history – to offer a brief outline of professional military education (PME) in the United States, which is to say the various stages by which US officers are academically…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Did anyone really call him Steve “Guitar” Miller or was that just my dad
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, 5/30/25 Here’s a joke for you: a guy with a master’s degree in ancient history and a…
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(QC RSS) In The Absence Of Proof
he’s not wrong…
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(xkcd.com) Check Engine
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Crime, love, etc.
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, 5/29/25 Look, obviously I’m not asking that a comic strip that deliberately has fun…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Reverse bro-ing out
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