Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part IV: Allies and Mercenaries
This is the fourth part of our series (I, II, III, IV, V) looking at how Carthage’s complex, multi-ethnic armies were raised and structured. Last week, we looked at Carthage’s unusual system for raising vassal forces: long-serving Carthaginian generals could inhabit positions within the personalist, non-state mobilization systems of Numidia and Iberia, enabling them to…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) The old men and the Friday
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, 5/8/26 I honestly am not sure if the joke here is simply “Lt. Fuzz is humiliated…
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(Policy of Truth) Charlie Kratovil for Mayor of New Brunswick
Though I don’t live in New Brunswick, and can’t vote in its municipal elections, I commute through the city ten times a week, and spend time there just about every week. I also have a strong interest, as do all of us in this area, in the workings of New Brunswick’s major institutions: Rutgers University,…
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(xkcd.com) Crystal Gazing
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) He’ll wait for her, motionless, in that same room, indefinitely
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! Gil Thorp, 5/7/26 See that girl in the second panel, sort of squinting at Gil and Coach Gerads…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Accept all of you
New comic!Today’s News: You can still late pledge in our 2026 Kickstarter. Find it here: tinyurl.com/2wjw2bw6You can now read Exorsisters on Pixie Trix Comix. It’ll update Monday to Friday! :)Subscribe to the Spice Rack newsletter h…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Naila and the Uprising” by Calling All Palestine Activists | Policy of Truth
[…] Finally, I’m not advising anyone to break the law (to reiterate something I’ve said before). I’m advising you to visit Princeton, which is perfectly legal, and to commemorate the sesquicentennial of our great revolutionary nation by cel…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Against Trespass by Calling All Palestine Activists | Policy of Truth
[…] I’m not advising anyone to break the law (to reiterate something I’ve said before). I’m advising you to visit Princeton, which is perfectly legal, […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Calling All Palestine Activists
Converge on Princeton: Reunions, May 21-24 I’ve been making the case to pro-Palestine activists wherever I go: the experience of being shut down at LeMoyne, NYU, U of Texas at Dallas, and Rutgers (with the prospect of retaliation at Michigan) and elsewhere is certainly a dispiriting one, but the answer is not to keep demanding…
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