Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Dr. No at the Voting Booth: An Election Day Parable by Voting on Character Means Voting Republican | Policy of Truth
[…] where a Republican was running unopposed by the Democrats (or I was, due to a bureaucratic glitch, forced to vote Republican in a primary), I’ve either left the ballot blank, or in some way voted against the Republicans by some ad hoc [……
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(Policy of Truth) Voting on Character Means Voting Republican
So here’s a case of character-based voting–not a particularly dramatic one, I’ll admit, but a case just the same, and evidence that character-based voting can, under the right circumstances, make perfect sense. I recently got my mail-in ballot for the upcoming general election. One of the offices on the ballot is that of Hunterdon County…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Some of My Poems by boydstun
(The second of these poems, I wrote last week while on the road, and I then noticed that it fits well—in this order—with these others from 2017 and 2019.) ~More~ It might be less one hoped and more. Fleshed out, timed out, all-run life-ball…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Our Malady”: An Open Thread on American Health Care by boydstun
Concerning the idea of a right to healthcare, it seems ambiguous. Is it only a right to engage healthcare with some provider? Or is it a right to have a provider? In the latter case, is it a right for fulfillment within a contract? Or is it a right for…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: So You Want To Go To Grad School (in the Academic Humanities)?
Graduate school application season is upon us and so I wanted to take this as an opportunity to talk about it. Every year, I talk with undergraduate students who are considering pursuing a graduate degree in the humanities, who mostly come to me because they know that my graduate school experience was relatively more recent…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Our Malady”: An Open Thread on American Health Care by Chris Paglinco
First, I’ve been a unit clerk on a step down unit. An admission counselor that created the “Expected Admissions List.” And I was a Centralized Scheduler. I also used to work for the New York Psychiatric Institute, but in a non-medical role. I was at th…
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(QC RSS) Robot Yelp
Faye climbed up there real quick
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Emergency
New comic!Today’s News: We’re running an Indiegogo campaign to get a bit more funds for our Ultraluminals Universe.Maybe you didn’t back our Kickstarter but would still be interested in this? Check it out here: https://igg.me/at/ultraluminals/x/27…
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(QC RSS) Copay
Faye is trying her best
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(Cat and Girl) Cat and Girl Versus the Ineffable Majesty of Nature
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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