Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and interpreted in a range of…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Emotional roller coasters
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! Judge Parker, 12/20/24 Last night I had the pleasure of waiting for the bus next to a guy…
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(xkcd.com) Exclusion Principle
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those Drones Explained by s gordon
America Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine: Drone Terror LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those Drones Explained by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Thanxx. Shar’d. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those Drones Explained by Irfan Khawaja
This is excellent: https://theintercept.com/2024/12/18/drones-new-jersey-sighting/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Droning On by Those Drones Explained | Policy of Truth
[…] decades of sending drones abroad to terrorize and kill people, it’s now belatedly occurred to […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Bad Company by Those Drones Explained | Policy of Truth
[…] professors or The New York Times to figure out which way the drones are blowing. To paraphrase the Weather Underground, wars eventually come home–first in imagination, then in fire. If Jeff Van Drew can figure it […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those Drones Explained by Roderick T. Long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjFG-4Ge668 LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) The Drones Explained
Zeynep Tufekci has a piece in The New York Times trying to explain the “drone panic” that has (supposedly) overtaken New Jersey. I live and work in central New Jersey, and have neither seen any drones nor encountered any panic, but am only too happy to borrow the premise. Tufekci attempts a couple of explanations…
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