Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Anti-Fascist Questions for Anti-Woke Warriors by sean samis
In reply to Michael Brazier. Michael B., You wrote that Irfan, “would have to show that Texas Oil helped Franco to help Hitler in his wars, or his tyrannies, for which there is no evidence.” I understand your desire to limit culpability to direct suppo…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Anti-Fascist Questions for Anti-Woke Warriors by sean samis
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. My condolences. sean s. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Anti-Fascist Questions for Anti-Woke Warriors by sean samis
In reply to Michael Brazier. Michael B., you replied to me that I, “clearly have no idea what Irfan was talking about. … As ‘cancellation’ is the subject at hand, Jim Crow has no place in the discussion.” Irfan responded at length, ending with, “I do t…
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(QC RSS) Mumble Mumble
Happy new year! Say hello to Emmett. Hello, Emmett.
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(Coding Horror) Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career.With early computers, you didn’t boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Anti-Fascist Questions for Anti-Woke Warriors by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Brazier. I’ll have to return to this discussion after a short hiatus, given the recent death of a close friend. (See post for Dec 31). LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Alison Bowles (1963-2021), RIP by Carol Warren Welsh (1970-2021), RIP | Policy of Truth
[…] Medicine for them was about victories over illness; death was the unspeakable defeat. I myself was mourning the loss of my wife to suicide just five months earlier, and looking for a way to come to terms with it. And so we spoke candidly abou…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Carol Welsh: Redefining “Heroic” by Carol Warren Welsh (1970-2021), RIP | Policy of Truth
[…] about life with a chronic tracheostomy tube. I’ve previously written about Carol in this post at PoT, with references to newspaper items about her misdiagnosis. Her Caring Bridge […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Carol Warren Welsh, RIP
I don’t remember the last time, if ever, I ran three memorial posts in such close succession, but I wanted to mark the passing of my friend Carol Welsh (b. 1970) on the morning of Wednesday, December 29, 2021. Carol died of complications sustained over a 21-year struggle with a brain tumor, a recurrent ependymoma…
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason.com) The History and Politics of Public Radio
James T. Bennett’s libertarian critique argues that noncommercial radio can be detached from the state—and that it’s better that way.
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