Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(QC RSS) Exceptional Circumstances
Tai briefly dated a lot of people’s roommates in college
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(xkcd.com) Orogeny
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Policy of Truth) Fear of the Dark
This ridiculous letter to the Wall Street Journal is making the rounds in certain quarters as though it enunciated some profound “gotcha”-level truth. John Chisholm is a man with an estimated net worth of $20.3 million. He was, for six years, a Trustee at MIT. The Trustees of a University are its de facto owners,…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Journey of a Thousand Miles by Roderick T. Long
Laozi did indeed say: “A journey of a thousand lǐ begins from where you stand” (Dàodéjing 64).(A lǐ was about a third of a mile.) Whether starting with a single step is the same idea as starting from where you stand is an interesting quest…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on In Your Darkness, We Shall See the Darkness by Journey of a Thousand Miles | Policy of Truth
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(Policy of Truth) Journey of a Thousand Miles
“A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step.” –Lao Tzu (supposedly) From my March 22 post on recent events at Columbia: What’s not a question is that strategic planners who couldn’t see this coming do not deserve to be employed. In a just world, these overpaid, over-hyped, preening incompetents would be thrown unceremoniously out of their…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Maybe he’s just very sleepy. From all the stalking
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! Panel from Slylock Fox, 3/30/25 This is at least the second time that Slylock Fox has proposed the…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on I Think They Call This Fascism by Michael Young
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Isn’t ‘racism’ often used today to refer to things like: (a) ethnic animus that is not particularly based on inherited traits, (b) stereotypes, speech-acts, etc. that (at least putatively) function to keep d…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) One-ish panel Saturday
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! Six Chix, 3/29/25 Look, man, everyone claims to love mermaids in theory, but a chimeric monster that’s half…
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on Molinari Review I.2: What Lies Within? by P.
It seems I can’t order a copy to Brazil. Is there a way to buy a PDF version, instead of the printed version?
Got any book recommendations?