Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Animals strike curious poses
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, 3/8/26 Five years ago, Mary tried to broach the question of whether Estelle was being grifted…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Malley and Wertheim on Iranian “Responsibility” by Muhayman
I hope you get deported, or at the very least, arrested. GO suck your dead ayatollah’s dick. Faggot. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “It’s OK to Be Gay”: Hamtramck and the Jihad for Gay Pride by Anatole Lieven on “The Woke Left” | Policy of Truth
[…] as a Christian heresy, then feel free to alter your vocabulary and say that you have to fight a jihad. Or call it a “crusade” for all I care. But whatever vocabulary you use, there’s […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Anatole Lieven on “The Woke Left”
Consider a lapse (or two) into senselessness in a generally sensible piece by a generally sensible author, Anatole Lieven. The thesis: By their shameful, spineless stance on the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran, European leaders have doomed whatever remained of their global influence and their pretensions to promote a “rules-based international order.” They are also helping to dig the…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) A “mud mountain” is a classic OSHA safety violation
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., 3/7/26 Look, normally when an employer is reluctant to tell you his last name, that’s…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026
Hey everyone, we have a Fireside this week and then next week we’ll get back to our somewhat silly break discussing the mechanics of warfare in Dune. But I did want to stop to chatter a bit about something that came up in that discussion, which is something about the nature of personalist regimes in…
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(Cat and Girl) Monster Talk
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Romantic successes
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! Crankshaft, 3/6/26 It’s been more than three years since Funky Winkerbean ended, but, just as a dying star…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Malley and Wertheim on Iranian “Responsibility” by Roderick T. Long
“If someone kills one man, he is condemned as unrighteous and must pay for his crime with his own life. According to this reasoning, if someone kills ten men, then he is ten times as unrighteous and should pay for his crime with ten lives, or if …
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