Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Another Night of Military Exercises Using Civilians as Human Shields by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I had made a mental note of visiting that location sometime this summer. There’s a kind of memorial to it there which I’ll photograph and post here. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-weathermen-townhouse-…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Young love (and also pluggers)
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! Pluggers, 6/7/26 Look, I know that Pluggers has lost its focus on pluggers being hard-working, blue collar real…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Outside Agitation by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. For that matter, driving from Atlanta GA to Birmingham AL is not an unimaginably long trek either. Okay, yes, it’s 150 miles; we’re not clustered quite as cozily as your northeastern states. But I know people at…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Outside Agitation by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Yeah, it’s hard to know which criticism to focus on–the falsehood of the first-order claim, or the irrelevance of the claim even if it were true. The claim is especially stupid in New Jersey, a tiny state sandw…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Nowhere to Hide by Ian Austin, Outside Agitator | Policy of Truth
[…] from Delaney Hall (4)Just a postscript to my June 3 post, “Nowhere to Hide,” featuring Ian Austin. I heard last night through the activist grapevine that Austin had […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Ian Austin, Outside Agitator
Scenes from Delaney Hall (4)Just a postscript to my June 3 post, “Nowhere to Hide,” featuring Ian Austin. I heard last night through the activist grapevine that Austin had been arrested. The arrest is obviously a case of targeting one of the most charismatic ground-level leaders of the migrant defense movement. He’s repeatedly been arrested…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Outside Agitation by Roderick T. Long
I remember when C4SSer Ross Kenyon was visiting at Auburn back in 2011, and while he was here he helped organise “Occupy Auburn,” and in an interview in the local paper — https://web.archive.org/web/20111212033435/https://oanow.com/n…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Why We Upheld the U.S. War Crimes Act At Port Elizabeth and Were Arrested by Outside Agitation | Policy of Truth
[…] Sal Son Logistics, “one mile from the port.” Port Newark, one mile away, ships bombs to Israel. Newark Airport brings a constant stream of outsiders in, and takes a constant stream out. The much […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Bodies Blocking Bombs by Outside Agitation | Policy of Truth
[…] with Sal Son Logistics, “one mile from the port.” Port Newark, one mile away, ships bombs to Israel. Newark Airport brings a constant stream of outsiders in, and takes a constant stream […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Outside Agitation
Scenes from Delaney Hall (3)In 1963, an outsider named Martin Luther King, Jr. traveled from Atlanta, Georgia to Birmingham, Alabama to protest injustice there by deliberately intensifying “tension” in that, to him, foreign city. His presence, as well as that of his followers, was questioned by locals: However, we are now confronted by a series…
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