Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Sunday is for old people
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! Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/28/25 Well, I guess Truck’s not-son Cody did in fact come out ahead of beloved…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Thoughts on Complicity by Karma Comes for Mikie Sherrill | Policy of Truth
[…] situation is, by the way, a perfect exemplification of the relationship between entanglement and complicity. When you’re involuntarily involved in someone else’s wrongdoing, you’re entangled in […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Reporters that Didn’t Bark in the Night by Karma Comes for Mikie Sherrill | Policy of Truth
[…] As I’ve said before ad nauseum, hospital records are hacked just about every day. The Change hack involved 100 million records. The Oracle/Cerner hack involved between tens of thousands and 6 million (low estimate, mid estimate, high estimate…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Oracle Speaks by Karma Comes for Mikie Sherrill | Policy of Truth
[…] telling us that the Chinese are after our data. (I’ve previously discussed Oracle/Cerner here and […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Documenting a Police Detention (2): The Long and Short of It by Karma Comes for Mikie Sherrill | Policy of Truth
[…] an error. What I do know is that many records requests involve redaction errors. When I myself was arrested back in 2017, I made a records request to the Lodi Police Department for the relevant records. When […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Karma Comes for Mikie Sherrill
A controversy has recently broken out in the New Jersey gubernatorial campaign. Mikie Sherrill, who has long touted her experience as a helicopter pilot for the Navy, is now facing the somewhat exaggerated charge that she “cheated her way” through the Naval Academy (to quote hearsay from the Internet). Nicholas DeGregorio, a supporter of Sherrill’s…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Generation gaps
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! Judge Parker, 9/27/25 Look, we’re all young and hip here [laughs nervously], but the truth is that the…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVd: Spinning Plates
This is the fourth thread of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who make up a majority of all of the humans who have ever lived. We’re thus probing here was has been, in effect, the modal human experience. Over…
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