Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Commenter Steven Johnson (stevenjohnson2) makes this comment on Brennan’s second BHL post (Johnson is responding to Brennan’s response to my response to Brennan’s original BHL post): My experience suggests that people rarely change …

The contrasts between New York and New Jersey might be as instructive as any similarities, though Byron may have things to say about Newark that apply. The one hunch I would offer is that in both New York and north Jersey, housing prices are high becau…

Thanks for the plug and the non-invite invite. If I can clear that day I will come to see if there are any local generalizations that might be applicable on the right side of the Hudson. LikeLike

The last time the US Embassy in Baghdad was on the receiving end of rocket attacks, the mass media was too fixated on Kobe Bryant to notice. This time, they’re fixated on the coronavirus. Hardly a surprise that the same media, and same public, still regard 9/11 as an unexpected “bolt from the blue” almost…

You should have seen the big deal they made about the tasers. All this red tape about liability, blah blah blah. LikeLike

Yeah, I wish we had the budget for that, but admin’s coming down hard on “superfluous expenses.” You know how that is. LikeLike

Karl Hess would be a great speaker for this, if he weren’t inconveniently dead. LikeLike

[…] life in New Jersey, she also happens to be a friend of my cousin’s. (And she spoke at the anti-war demonstration I blogged a few weeks […] LikeLike