Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Odd jobs
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, 9/21/25 Comics Time is a damn complicated thing. Dagwood and Blondie are both relatively young parents of…
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(Policy of Truth) “Divestment and the Boundaries of Conscience”
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Not even going to get into how sad having Buck as your best man would be
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, 9/20/25 My favorite part of this Blondie strip is “40 reps of what?” Like, she knows that…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Apocalypse Now by His Deeds On His Head | Policy of Truth
[…] anguish they suffered! Poor, poor things! Judge not, lest it be discovered that you figured out on Day 1 what these “experts” were too cowardly to admit or act on for the […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on His Deeds On His Head by Roderick T. Long
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (meaning the original radioplay scripts, the most canonical form of the story, mostly): SHOOTY (Young American cop type, shouts from distance) OK Beeblebrox, hold it right there. We’ve got you cover…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, September 19, 2025 (On the Use and Abuse of Malthus)
Hey folks, Fireside this week! Next week we should be back to start looking at the other half of labor in the peasant household, everything that isn’t agriculture. Also, here are some cats: For this week’s musing, I want to address something that comes up frequently in the comments, particularly any time we discuss agriculture:…
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(Policy of Truth) His Deeds On His Head
Fifty or sixty years from now, this is how they’ll be rehabilitating the reputations of the assholes running our current genocide in Gaza. Oh, the private doubts they had! The anguish they suffered! Poor, poor things! Judge not, lest it be discovered that you figured out on Day 1 what these “experts” were too cowardly…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Pluggers and plugging in
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, 9/19/25 Look, you know I can be a little spicy when it comes to pluggers and their…
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(Policy of Truth) Montgomery Twp Issues ITA Proclamation
Apropos of my last post, Montgomery Township has just issued an official proclamation in favor of the Immigrant Trust Act. A proclamation has a somewhat lower official status than a resolution; unlike a resolution, it’s issued collectively by the mayor and Council, and doesn’t require individualized votes by Council members. So it’s not exactly what…
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