Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
(The Comics Curmudgeon) Soapy corrections
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., 3/1/26 Ah, it looks like our runaway ex-Hollywood starlet, now desperate to eschew fame, is…
-
( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Once More Against War with Iran by Neural Foundry
The line about life becoming a series of nightmares and choosing to take them in stride is one of the more honest things I’ve read from a writer covering escalation in real time. The way you frame coping through writing, whether on topic or not, …
-
(Policy of Truth) Once More Against War with Iran
I just did a quick search, and it appears that I’ve written or posted some thirty-odd items on Iran over the last dozen years, almost all of them expressing opposition to the idea of war with Iran. A few date to the years 2014-2019, but the bulk cluster in the first few months of 2020,…
-
(The Comics Curmudgeon) Saturday outrage
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! Marvin, 2/28/26 OK, the question of “What the hell kind of school does Marvin go to” is always…
-
(The Comics Curmudgeon) Joey’s throwing form is terrible, that’s amusing at least
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! Dennis the Menace, 2/27/26 I’m not here to tell the Dennis the Menace creative team how to do…
-
(QC RSS) Incoming
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
-
(xkcd.com) Dental Formulas
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
-
(The GiveWell Blog) GiveWell’s 2025 Grantmaking: Record Grants, Expanded Reach, Crisis Response
In our 2025 grantmaking year, GiveWell approved $418 million in grants to highly cost-effective programs in order to save and improve lives as much as we can. Through years of deliberate groundwork, we’ve been growing our research capacity and scope in order to direct substantially more funding to the most impactful opportunities we can find.…
-
(The Comics Curmudgeon) Live your life so Mary Worth never bold-face yells “AGE DIFFERENCE?” at you
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! Dick Tracy, 2/26/26 The number of human beings who, over the past 18 months or so, have wondered…
Got any book recommendations?