Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

My dear old friend Amanda Marcotte has issued a warning about certain people in the natural food industry. Some of them are (gasp!) right wing. Which means that if you are going to buy organic food, you should be very careful. For all the good stuff in the organic food movement, there’s also a sector of…

Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn was interviewed by WREX TV. I had the great honor of meeting him at Friday night services and at a Saturday afternoon symposium. You can read more about the Rabbi here: Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn and here: DC Medical Marijuana Rabbi Comes To Rockford. The Rabbi discussed Medical Marijuana and how as a…

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com       More New York Police Admit to Wrongly Seizing David Lewis’ Guns.

Commenter Kate left a comment on my post Life At Conception Act that deserves a wider audience. So here it is: ====== Oh, the fun I could have with this… I’ll be nice. Data point one: Where abortion is available AND there are no-identification abandonment places for women to leave unwanted infants, there are still…

“I cover policy for the Washington Post, not local crime…” So claims Washington Post reporter Sarah Kliff in explaining why she did not report the unbelievable carnage at Dr. Gosnell’s Philadelphia charnel house which called itself an abortion clinic. This is not about abortion, but infanticide. (I don’t approve of abortion, but there is an important difference.)…

You can find an article on what he did at The Atlantic. You can also get the short version at Navy Training Wins Election For Obama. Further thoughts. No guy who looks like that (another picture) is going to be hired by Republicans. They won’t be hiring me either. But defense contractors hired me back…

I just went to the home page of Prevention Magazine and entered “endocannabinoid” into the search engine. Nothing. There are more endocannabinoid receptors in the body than any other receptor type. Nothing at Prevention. If you go to go to the NIH site and search “endocannabinoid” you will get over 120,000 cites (It was 130,000+…

I do not like the picture which is staring me in the face on the front page of today’s WSJ: I found it online. The caption: Prince George’s (Md.) County police officer Chandler Coleman, center, wipes his eyes as he listens to Vice President Joe Biden speak about shooting victims as he sits Tuesday April…

Commenter Gringo left a link to an Atlantic piece about how the Obama team won the election that had this little gem embedded: Hatch was playing the role of dungeon master, calling out devilishly complex scenarios that were designed to test each and every piece of their system as they entered the exponential traffic-growth phase…

Via Ann Althouse, I learned that the government is paying people to go door to door and pay people $90 to answer questions about  “drinking, medicine and drug use, mood, anxiety, behavior and medical conditions and personality.” Like any sensible person, she wouldn’t do it. But others have: Yet over 100,000 people have participated. $90…

I just go this from JPFO: “John Doe, an upstanding professional with no outstanding criminal convictions and no history of violent action received a letter from the Pistol Permit Department informing him that his license was immediately revoked upon information that he was seeing a therapist for anxiety and had been prescribed an anxiety drug.…

The Old Victorianism – Sex The New Victorianism – Endocannabinoid Break the New Victorianism. Post “Endocannabinoid” as a comment everywhere – no explanation just “Endocannabinoid”. Update: 9 April 2013 1453z A commenter is wondering about the meaning of Endocannabinoid. And gives me a wink. It does not mean what you think it means. This is…

ECN ran a piece a little over a week ago about how the Republican Party was technologically weak when it came to election winning technology. The evidence is pretty good for this. Normally when the economy is down the party out of power stands a very good chance of winning a national election. But 2012,…

Well this just beats all. Animal rights activists want to sic drones on their enemies:  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is actively shopping for a drone that would “stalk hunters,” the organization said Monday. The group says it will “soon have some impressive new weapons at its disposal to combat those who gun…

Commenter AJ was asking a few questions at Eric’s More worthless than a degree from a diploma mill. AJ believes in the value of schooling. I do not. I believe in the value of education. Specifically – educating yourself. I decided he deserved some answers. ================ “I don’t understand how being an aerospace engineer without…

I was discussing things with an anarcho communist (which I used to be in another life) and thought it might be some fun to repeat parts of the discussion for your amusement and edification. Unlike my usual this is probably going to go long. He starts out by proposing free exchange over the internet by…

Earlier I came across an amazing statement by our highest court: “Obviously, direct control of medical practice in the states is beyond the power of the federal government.” The Supreme Court said that in a unanimous 1925 opinion which held that the Harrison Narcotics Act could not be used to prosecute doctors who prescribe narcotics…

A while back I posted a video of Heart Surgeon Dr. David Allen discussing the value of cannabis for heart health. What I didn’t know at the time was that the State of Mississippi tried to railroad him on marijuana charges in order to steal his property. Dr. David Allen is a cardiovascular surgeon who…

During a golf game recently, the president of Bowdoin College hit up a prominent philanthropist for money and the man refused, calling Bowdoin “a ridiculous liberal school that brings all the wrong students to campus for all the wrong reasons.” After that, the philanthropist was castigated by the president as a knuckle-dragging troglodyte, who had…

From: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23537701 CONCLUSION: A single ultra low dose of THC before ischemia is a safe and effective treatment that reduces myocardial ischemic damage. Translation: Tel Aviv, Israel: Low doses of THC are cardioprotective in mice, according to preclinical data to be published online in the journal Biochemical Pharmacology. Israeli scientists assessed in impact of a…