Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) Would Mikie Sherrill Cover Up Someone’s Wrongdoing?
Our judgments of current happenings always depend on background knowledge of the past. What’s been happening at Delaney Hall these past twelve days or so is specifically a function of Governor Mikie Sherrill’s policies. So her past matters. One contested question is the extent to which Mikie Sherrill would be willing to accept complicity in…
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(xkcd.com) Detector
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) They’re a cultured people, eh wot
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! Andy Capp, 6/2/26 Look, I don’t pretend to know everything about what life is like in working-class, industrial…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Taking another one
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Would Mikie Sherrill Lie to You? by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. A lot of that is a function of echo-chamber discourse. The dumbest of my beliefs, particularly my political ones, were formed when I lived a very isolated lifestyle and actively shunned social interaction. Teaching changed…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Honestly a St. Sebastian Met Gala theme would rule
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! Wizard of Id, 6/1/26 The Met Gala was exactly four weeks ago today, in case you were curious…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Would Mikie Sherrill Lie to You? by Roderick T. Long
“There’s no reason to think that Sherrill has, on assuming office as governor, undergone some transformative moral change since October.” I remember (vaguely) an astonishing passage in one of Allen Drury’s novels where he claims that …
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(Policy of Truth) Would Mikie Sherrill Lie to You?
Both sides in the dispute over Delaney Hall have accused New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill of lying about the State Police response to the protesters outside of the facility. A preliminary to litigating any such dispute is to address a prior question: would Mikie Sherrill lie to you? Is she even capable of it? Are…
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(xkcd.com) Sunbeam
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on To the Agitators Coming to Delaney Hall from Outside of New Jersey by zealousd23d4cf360
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Yeah!! LikeLiked by 1 person
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