Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I share much of your pain. As someone living in Iran and attempting to warn people here and also back home in the UK that this is serious for over a month, I have faced a barrage of stupidity from so many different people. Alas, things have unfolded ve…

[…] to him. He might want to have a conversation with Dr. Sanjay Gupta on that one. Or some of my neighbors. Or hell, some college […] LikeLike

[…] to that goal. So I just assumed they would. I was so sure they’d live up to their word that I challenged anyone with the bucks to send me to Beirut (and back) to have a cup of coffee with Hezb…–certain that they’d be n…

The Washington Examiner is a right-wing paper, and it’s angry at us. It’s trying to cut through this coronavirus noise, and tell us something. My God, why is no one listening? What will it take? Iran repeatedly attacks US troops while coronavirus outbreak distracts public attention. Repeatedly! And during a pandemic! The nerve of those…

From what I have heard or read, deaths from COVID-19 vary highly by age. Most dying from it are elderly, with hardly any children. The children might be transmitters, but the virus isn’t even making them sick, let alone killing them. Italy, with …

[…] just got a frightened text message from a friend who read my last post, and asked me to convince his teenager to take coronavirus more seriously, and be more rigorous […] LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Yeah–that was an early draft. LikeLike