Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The book discussed: The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine H/T Reason

A friend (Portia) sent me this, and I suspect it’s true: What the government won’t tell you is that both the Obamacare website source code as well as all the UFO information are tightly locked up in Roswell, NM. MORE: I have also been leaked a photograph which was surreptitiously taken of two men unfortunate…

I hope Zero Hedge will excuse me for republishing this post. This is what the American economy has to look forward to. Except it is happening now. SNAP (mentioned below) is Food Stamps. From a Zero Hedge reader: My company, based in California, employs 600. We used to insure about 250 of our employees. The…

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. – Tacitus

The above is a diagram of the best way to build software vs the way HealthCare.gov was actually done. Note that the requirements have yet to be fully defined (don’t believe what the chart says in this case – I assume it was prettied up for consumption by government managers). There is no way they…

Report Alleges Unemployment Rate Was ‘Faked’ Ahead Of 2012 Election H/T Zero Hedge

I came across this from Chateau Heartiste. Liberals are more likely to kill a white person than a black person to save 100 people. So it’s not that liberals are more moral than conservatives, it’s that they’re “differently moral”. I suppose if you like living with people you can trust, you’d want to stay the…

Someone sent me a link to this video of a pair of really boring airheads. Reluctant as I was to click on it to watch it, watch I did. Yawn. I got tired of them, and grew impatient. Yet, just about the same time that happened, an odd little thing in the video made me…

Kurt Schlichter is not blaming libertarians and Libertarians for Ken Cuccinelli’s loss in Virginia. Much. We usually think of a libertarian as a committed anti-statist who favors very limited government operating within strict parameters that maximize individual liberty. Some libertarians fit that mold. Others just want to take bong hits and pretend to be edgy…

Earlier I was reading about judicial versus constitutional conservatism. And Calhounian versus Heinleinian libertarianism. I’m beat and have to get up before dawn, so I have no time for Venn Diagrams, but I’m wondering how much overlap there would be if you had a circle for both of the above kinds of conservatism and both of the…

It is axiomatic that if there were no laws, there would be no lawbreaking. In logic, if laws = crime, then no laws = no crime. Sounds simple, but as we all know, in life what we think of as crime is not merely illegal conduct, but immoral and dangerous conduct — the sort of…

At 1 hour 20 minutes in they talk about the pharmaceutical industry vs marijuana. You can find out more about endocannabinoid/cannabis medical science at Rockford For Safe Access.

Yet again, Jon Stewart has lifted my spirits: But never mind that! According to The Man himself, Obamacare is whatever Obama says it is. Well then, is that settled? What’s also funny is that the Democrats are starting to panic, and are acting for the world like rats deserting a sinking ship. You’d almost think…

The National Review article discussed. H/T Libertarian Republican Also this from Libertarian Republican

You can’t eliminate behavioral sink behavior unless you eliminate behavior sinks. That means for one drug “addiction”. Addiction in a behavioral sink The abortion/gestation question comes to mind. Many [female rats] were unable to carry pregnancy to full term or to survive delivery of their litters if they did. An even greater number, after successfully…

You Break the Law Every Day … Without Even Knowing It Estimates of the current size of the body of federal criminal law vary. It has been reported that the Congressional Research Service cannot even count the current number of federal crimes. These laws are scattered in over 50 titles of the United States Code,…

What This Morning’s Obamacare Announcement Means. Update: “We fumbled the rollout on this health-care law.” “I completely get how upsetting this can be for a lot of Americans.” “It is a complex process.” “I was not informed directly [How about indirectly?!] that the Web site would not be working. . . . I don’t think…

Nice to see a government employee admit it.

The Threepenny Opera Some history: Berlin – Metropolis of Vice: Part 1 Berlin – Metropolis of Vice: Part 2 Weimar Culture What people leave out of the Weimar experience and IMO its foundation is the lack of men – killed in the war. We are doing something similar with our divorce laws. And our drug…

A list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies: Evergreen Solar ($25 million)* SpectraWatt ($500,000)* Solyndra ($535 million)* Beacon Power ($43 million)* Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million) SunPower ($1.2 billion) First Solar ($1.46 billion) Babcock and Brown ($178 million) EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)* Amonix ($5.9 million) Fisker Automotive ($529 million) Abound Solar ($400 million)* A123 Systems…