Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

My friend Diogenes alerted me to an American Thinker article on Beppe Grillo. Europe’s political class is shocked and panicked. They are pretending Grillo is just a “populist” and a “reformer” — but he also wants to “process” all the Jews in the world, who are responsible for all the evil. Grillo wants to nationalize…

“I am not a crook.” – Richard Nixon, 1973. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” – Bill Clinton, 1998. “I am not a dictator.” – Barack Obama, 2013.   UPDATE: Geez, I guess I wasn’t very original in my choice of quotes. Someone beat me to it on Facebook! =1

What is the least statist part of the electorate? The Independents. Pronounced “the Independence”.

Btw, since the prodigal is back (yay, I figured out why my wordpress wasn’t letting me log into here — or PJMedia) I thought some people might be interested in this:   The thirteen week novel writing program which I’ll be starting over at PJ Lifestyle March 11 — because I’m insane or have illusions…

I’ve talked before about being in the political closet.  The thing is, though that’s the easiest shorthand, it’s not the right shorthand, which made it worse. The political closet would be right if one identified strongly with one party’s entire perceived agenda and were pretending to be the other. (The perceived is important and will…

I learned an odd little tidbit today. After reading yet another official scolding about the evils of red meat (“saturated fat and cholesterol in beef, pork and lamb are believed to play a role in the risk of coronary heart disease,” etc.), I amused myself researching cholesterol and was startled to find this: Poultry and poultry…

Things are so bad, I needed a laugh. “Girls Gone Wild” is bankrupt. There are two boobs in this video. Just in case you wondered. And the final comment is incorrect. “Girls Gone Wild” is going down. H/T Girls Gone Filed

About an hour and forty-five minutes. You can get the gist of it from the first six minutes. Cannabis for MS: Lots more video links and other links at: Does the Bible talk about Marijuana? Some are pro. Some are con. The endocannabinoid system is a major regulator in the body implicated in almost all…

A lot of people complain about how easy it is to become a felon, and a couple of recent incidents hammer this point home. Did you know that in America, you can become a felon by letting go of balloons? A 40-year-old man faces felony charges after releasing a dozen heart-shaped, helium-filled balloons to impress…

Jeffrey Kahn used to be my Rabbi when he was in Rockford. He is now involved in other things. Jeffrey Kahn, a Reform rabbi living in Washington, D.C., remembers several congregants who approached him over the years with the same dilemma: They’d heard that marijuana could relieve their nausea from chemotherapy or their pain from…

So the Italian elections interest me. Lets start with Zero Hedge (ZH). It may come as a surprise to some, but the largest single party in the Italian Chamber as a result of today’s elections, when stripping away all alliance partners, is none other than Beppe Grillo’s Movimento 5 Stelle. With 25.53% of the votes…

The stories Drudge links these days! Sheesh. If you didn’t have a sense of perspective (which I hope most educated Americans have), you might think a few oddball stories are evidence that society is falling apart, or even that your typical American man is a 325 lb transvestite burglar. …in what will surely repulse Dr.…

Lately I’ve been thinking about how we are ruled. A lot of people want to rule us, and many of them use an excuse the notion that ‘we” are not capable of ruling ourselves. While I might be willing to concede that some of us either are not (or at least are doing a piss…

Funny. But true. globalgiving.org/projects/drugreporter

The net is abuzz with commentary that I also participated in at: We Are Ruled. Wretchard at The Belmont Club is also hitting it. With respect to Republicans he says: The closer one gets to its top, the more it looks like the ghost of Rockefeller. To which I replied (revised and extended): That is…

A nice musical arrangement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LQSlVRdyNs What, you expect me to be watching the Oscars?

Eric Left a few links at my post And People Say The War On Drugs Is A Failure which I think deserve some wider attention. A subtitle of this post could be: Race Based Incarceration For Profit From: The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor. Prison labor has already started to undercut the business…

  We Are Ruled By Coalitions Of Fears   Prompted by Jccarlton who linked to It’s For Your Own Good! – NYTs and Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism – Book Excerpt and We want to rule you because you are stupid and powerless and we are wise – Samizdata. I had a few further thoughts…

Sexism in this country can take many forms. One famous example is when a young female college student invites a professor over for a candlelight dinner and then complains (over 20 years later) that he touched her on the thigh. OK, so maybe the professor was unwise to accept the invitation. But to give some perspective,…

Would that be Hillary Clinton on the Drug War? Nope. Pablo Escobar’s hit man on the Drug War. “People like me can’t be stopped. It’s a war. They lose men, and we lose men. They lose their scruples, and we never had any. In the end, you’ll even blow up an aircraft because you believe…