Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) ‘New Brunswick Today’ Under Attack
I’ve praised both New Brunswick Today and its editor Charlie Kratovil on this blog before. If, as I’ve put it elsewhere, “New Brunswick politics is an education,” Charlie Kratovil deserves an endowed chair. New Brunswick Today was the newspaper that published the most extensive expose, back in 2024, of the outrageous scheme by Edison township…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Grim Monday
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! Intelligent Life, 6/22/26 Everything I’ve learned about all the characters in Intelligent Life has been against my will.…
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(xkcd.com) Sports Commentary
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Our World in Data) How much are people across the world paying for their carbon emissions?
Around 30% of the world’s emissions have some carbon price, but how much extra are people paying?
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(Policy of Truth) The Strikers and their Families Come First
Guest post by Paulo Almiron, posted June 2 at the Substack of Resistencia en Acción This past week has seen it all. A lot has been written and said. There is no doubt that the violence perpetrated by law enforcement has taken over the headlines. Joint operations between Newark Police, New Jersey State Police, and…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) “Rigor Mortis Theater” is clearly a reliable source
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! Curtis, 6/20/26 As a longtime Wikipedia editor and aficionado of Wikipedia silliness, I enjoy it when I stumble…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIb: Officials, Contractors and Professionals
This is the second half of the second part (I, IIa, IIb) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. While I hope this will be of great interest to the history nerds out there, I’ve opted to structure this specifically as a…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Various odd creatures
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! Mark Trail, 6/19/26 Oh wow, I think this gorilla sanctuary storyline is adding yet more layers of moral…
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