Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Is blogging cringe? We investigate
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, 12/8/24 Hello, fellow young people! Like me (a young person), you have no doubt been using…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Philip Pettit’s Republicanism: A Series (5/6) by UHC, Denials, and Death | Policy of Truth
[…] and kill them. I don’t flatly deny that that can happen–I recently made a point via such an example myself–but I deny that it’s the usual case. The correct inference is that the denials […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) UHC, Denials, and Death
Let me just get straight to the point: I have a real worry about how people are reacting to the UHC killing. It’s not the usual worry that we’re being mean to Brian Thompson. It’s that a lot of what people are saying shows a misunderstanding of how the health insurance denials process works. I…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Ha ha, it’s funny because the old men hate their wives
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, 12/7/24 Black Friday? Enh. Small business Saturday? Whatever. Cyber Monday? Who cares. The real biggest shopping day…
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(Cat and Girl) In the Forest
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Mostly soapy Friday
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, 12/6/24 Oh, yeah, my prediction that Judge Parker Senior has his fugitive daughter Anne living in…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week (and next), I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a…
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(xkcd.com) Seismologists
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Love a newspaper headline that eschews proper nouns
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! Crock, 12/5/24 If these two guys have names, I don’t know what they are — the Wikipedia Crock…
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