Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) The Soft Domination of Everyday Life
Consider this post an unplanned addendum to my earlier series on domination and at-will employment. A friend of mine just got “fired”–you’ll see in a minute why the word is in scare quotes–and we’re disagreeing about what it all means. Naturally, I thought I’d share tidbits of our discussion here. My friend blames himself; I…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Century Boulevard … we love it
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! Blondie, 11/2/24 The Blondie creative team is usually very locked in to whatever big calendar full of real…
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason Magazine) That Time Al Franken Kept Telling Me Jokes About Mullets
There was music in the cafés at night, and talk of liberal-libertarian cooperation was in the air.
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres Conscripti of…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Wilbumiliation
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, 11/1/24 Aww, who came to Dr. Ed and Estelle’s last-minute, let’s-make-it-legal-before-we-have-another-dumb-fight wedding? Well, from left, we…
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(QC RSS) Just Straight Girl Things
Hannelore smells like fabric softener
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(xkcd.com) Demons
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Biggest Goofball in Gaza by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. It originally was password protected, but it’s not supposed to be now. I’ve occasionally encountered the problem of a lag between my making a change and WordPress updating it, so maybe it’s that. I was reading a book on h…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Biggest Goofball in Gaza by Roderick T. Long
Not sure why the notification says the post is password protected. It wasn’t, for me. ________________________________ LikeLike
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