Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) The Sea of Trees
(This post gives away the whole plot of the movie “The Sea of Trees.”) My wife Alison took her life four years ago today in Toronto–March 4, 2021. She was discovered, still alive, during a pre-scheduled building inspection of her townhouse. She was rushed to the hospital but died there. She’d been hospitalized for an…
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(QC RSS) Mandatory Quest
What if there isn’t even a mop at all?????
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Complicity, Neutrality, Atrocity (1/5) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Young. Agree with all that. Obviously, the likelihood of complicity depends on the context, and claims of complicit are in the end parasitic on a demonstration of the injustice done by the primary wrongdoers. The clearest case is th…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Complicity, Neutrality, Atrocity (1/5) by Michael Young
Again, looking forward to the reading the Mellema. Quite a lot might turn on: (a) how likely it is that there is (sufficient) complicity in (great) injustice and (b) just what any perfect duty of non-complicity looks like. “Not clear that there i…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Mostly soapy Monday
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! Mary Worth, 3/3/25 Big news, everybody: Wilbur’s back! Wilbur’s back, and he’s giggling coyly about the fun he’s…
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(Our World in Data) “Cool” years are now hotter than the “warm” years of the past: tracking global temperatures through El Niño and La Niña
The world is warming despite natural fluctuations from the El Niño cycle.
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(QC RSS) A Pintsize Joke
it’s a Pintsize joke, you see
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(xkcd.com) Tall Structures
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Comedic (or not) timing
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., 3/2/25 Oh, hey, sorry I haven’t kept you up to date on the tale of…
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on Fall Right, Swing Left by roderick long fan
In reply to Stephan Kinsella. i agree!
Got any book recommendations?