Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Back in 2002, I started this libertarian-oriented blog in what I naively thought might be a way to counter bigotry, especially anti-gay religious bigotry emanating from  social conservatives on the right. I’ve gotten tired of blogging, but the election of religious bigot extraordinaire Roy Moore is enough to awaken me from the grave — at least to…

Discussed in the video: Price’s Law. Price’s square root law or Price’s law pertains to the relationship between the literature on a subject and the number of authors in the subject area stating that half of the publications come from the square root of all contributors. [4] Thus, if 100 papers are written by 25…

( About 20 minutes ) He discusses how the Democrats are setting themselves up for more losses in 2018. He also mentions in passing how Trump is a master troll, forcing the Democrats into losing positions so they can be in total opposition to Trump on everything. If Trump came out in favor of water,…

The Scientist – The story of Raphael Mechoulam and the Endocannabinoid System ( About an hour and two minutes )

Some rich Black men protest American racism during the National Anthem at NFL football games. Making football political. The politician in chief gets involved. Hilarity ensues. Update: 25 September 2017 1047z The early returns are in. The fans don’t like it. Fans boo Steelers.

I’m going back to the fast pitch competition I entered last year. This time as an observer. Maybe I can interest an investor. Or sell some electronic design services. In any case the food was very good. And I get to hang out with designers and engineers for a few hours.

Seen on the Net. And marginally improved. Conspiracy Theory is a biased term for the Truth you do not want to believe in. === So many are just non-sense on stilts. Too many are something different.

The Republican Party is fragmented. You have the Freedom Caucus (about 20% – libertarians). Then there are main stream (squish Republicans – about 60%) And there are the old time “fire and brimstone” conservatives – (about 20%). About all they kinda agree on is “mildly limited government for now, more later”. By not allowing amendments…

Republican leaders are calling for a “clean” debt increase bill. “While some have advocated for a ‘clean’ debt limit increase, this would simply increase the borrowing authority of the government while irresponsibly ignoring the urgency of reforms,” Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), the chairman of the Republican Study Group, wrote in a letter to Ryan. Something…

It looks like Trump has renominated mob connected lawyer Tom Marino for Drug Czar. That is pretty blatant. Even for Trump. I wrote about that back in April when it first came up. I noted this from International Business Times: In 2007, Marino resigned from his position as a federal prosecutor after it was revealed…

Hank Phillips 9.1.17 @ 10:24PM In the Banana Republics we call the cop shops corporations. Joining one is being “incorporado,” and the practice of framing up phony evidence so the boys can murder with impunity is an exercise in “corporativismo.” == Which kind of fits in with my post earlier today about Trump’s Praetorian Guard.

From: So Deep, It’s Sunk? Trump has allied with another power center: state and local police departments. He has given them fulsome, vocal support, encouragement to be more brutal, rescission of President Obama’s civil asset forfeiture rollback, and promises of more military gear. This is what one would expect of a ruler bent on consolidating…

I left this comment (sarcastic in part) at this site entitled “The Nashville Statement Isn’t About Trump, And A Ton of Evangelicals Support It”. == People in chronic pain chronically take pain relievers. It is the duty of every Christian to fight this immorality. Which reminds me. I have no doubt there is a God…

An essay on eating disorders that has a lot to say about human nature. We are slaves to what other people want. We NEED our group. In the old days ( a few years ago ) we handled this with role models. I haven’t seen anyone I’d care to emulate since Robert Pease died. Or…

In Facebook Exposed the author notes: A Facebook board member tweeted that ‘anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?’ As Taplin points out, that remark ‘unwittingly revealed a previously unspoken truth: Facebook and Google are the new colonial powers.’ The article linked is long. You should read the…

It seems some snowflakes have been triggered. By a banana peel in a tree. …campus snowflakes have done it again, and this time it’s a single discarded banana peel which sent a college fraternity event hosting campus “leaders” into meltdown and general panic. As one prominent columnist put it, “Ole Miss Goes Bananas” – we…

Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction I’m not going to supply a link. There is no emerging science.     People in chronic pain chronically take pain relievers.

The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it;…

Even though I might have just “thought” it, a basic Google search reveals that there is nothing original about that sentiment. In fact, it’s all over the Internet. Still, it saddens me to see people die, even when they are people I don’t especially like. Familiarity breeds contempt, and I am so familiar with death…