Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Does he think she can buy her own plane tickets or what
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, 9/7/25 I myself am not a parent and don’t presume to fully understand how they have…
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(Policy of Truth) The Mikie Sherrill Sweatbox
I saw this on Facebook just now. The “her” is Mikie Sherrill, Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey. To my regret, I volunteered for her 2017-2018 campaign for Congress (along with Chelsea Handler and other assorted idiots), and avidly promoted her here at PoT. It reminds me of a scene in Jean-Claude Van Damme’s…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Saturday is for death
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! Beetle Bailey, 9/6/25 Hmm, Sarge managed to knock himself unconscious after landing on his tailbone, presumably from some…
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(Policy of Truth) “Not the Time for Cowardice”
Statement of Sadaf Jaffer in support of a municipal resolution supporting the Immigrant Trust Act, Montgomery (NJ) Town Council, Sept. 4. Good evening, As a former mayor and state legislator, I urge you to pass a resolution supporting the Immigrant Trust Act and to do everything in your power to ensure that our state assemblymembers…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days
This is the continuation – the first of several – of the fourth part of our series looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers – a majority of all of the humans who have ever lived. Last time we discussed the survival requirements (in food and textiles) of a peasant household as well as…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) RIP Norway, 872-950 AD
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! Hagar the Horrible, 9/5/25 Real Hagar heads know that Hagar is illiterate, and while Lucky Eddie also was…
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(Our World in Data) Hannah Ritchie’s new book on tackling climate change is out now
“Clearing the Air” is available now.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Fuller on Aspirations and Duties by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Mustafa Mahdi. Thanks for your comment. I will definitely look up your site when I get a chance. And I do think that the power of Islamic ethics remains untapped in many ways. Still, I tend to reject a sharp distinction between the obligato…
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