Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Damn! It’s 11:47 p.m.  If I don’t post something I’ll turn into a pumpkin! Coco agrees. UPDATE: On a happier note, I fixed the broken hot tub! Isn’t it beeeyooteeful?

First Egypt and now China. There is a growing trend in the Chinese blogosphere to vocalize praises and expressions of support for Hitler. If Chinese authorities fail to address this problem, dangerous consequences may ensue. The Rumor A rumor is spreading virally throughout the Middle Kingdom that asserts that Austrian-born Hitler was raised by a…

According to the Jerusalem Post the Nazis of Egypt are coming out into the open. A group of Egyptian political activists have announced plans to set up a local version “of the Nazi party,” an Egyptian newspaper reported on Thursday. Citing a leftist Egyptian news portal, the Al-Masry Al-Youm daily said that “the party’s founding…

A dietary supplement may be able to improve the lives of diabetics and the overweight according to Dr. Yaakov Nahmias. Israeli scientists may have discovered an effective new way to treat high cholesterol and diabetes naturally. Dr. Yaakov Nahmias from the Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science at Hebrew University and his colleagues have…

Of the ten most dangerous cities in America with populations above 100,000, Rockford, Illinois came in at number 9. Rockford has unusually high violent crime rates for a city of its size. Most notably, the city has the fourth highest rate of aggravated assault in the country, with 10.5 cases for every 1,000 citizens in…

The Detroit Free Press has learned that confidential information, evidence, and dangerous debris was left behind at the site of the Detroit Police Department’s notorious crime lab (closed in 2008): Thousands of rounds of live ammunition, sealed evidence kits and case files — some containing Social Security numbers of rape and assault victims — lay…

Hill Buzz brings to my attention a curious fact about Sarah Palin. She has not announced for President. Instead she is taking a summer vacation. Touring America. Starting in Washington, DC. Today, Sarah Palin announced a bus tour called The One Nation Tour, organized as a “soft launch” to her Presidential campaign that will allow…

Ed Schultz is taking himself off the air over remarks he made a couple of days ago. Nearly 32 hours after his ill-conceived remarks about conservative talker Laura Ingraham, MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” host Ed Schultz appeared before his viewers to apologize for those remarks. Schultz, who had called Ingraham a “right-wing slut,” first apologized…

Well, that is my opinion. Who is she? Sarah Palin. And why do I think she is in? There is a movie coming out in June. Shortly after Republicans swept last November to a historic victory in which Sarah Palin was credited with playing a central role, the former Alaska governor pulled aside her close…

Quick question. How is it that you can be put in a Facebook group without ever consenting? This has happened to me twice now, and what I don’t like about it is that it appears to the world that I joined groups I never joined. Curious, I googled the question and saw that there is…

Via a Facebook friend, I learned about a shockingly totalitarian idea: adding the psychiatric drug Lithium to the water supply ostensibly to prevent suicide: For decades, it’s been the gold-standard treatment for the most distressing of mental health disorders: mania, schizophrenia, and major depression. But now, lithium – the third element of of the periodic…

Rep. Eric Cantor had this to say. It is not morally equivalent when the offenses of terrorists are equated with the defenses of Israel. The following story illustrates Israel’s dilemma. A Palestinian woman from Gaza arrives at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba for lifesaving skin treatment for burns over half her body. After the conclusion of…

Steve Chapman looks at the well-organized campaign against McDonald’s by food moralists demanding government crackdowns on foods and restaurants they don’t like. In an all-too-familiar pattern, the food moralists see tastes in food the way the sex moralists see tastes in sex. There are no free choices. Instead, there are mindless victims brainwashed by purveyors…

According to Debka – not always the most reliable source – the Palestinians have shot their wad and all they have to show for it is a messy clean up job. Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has run into blank walls in his ploy for using a unity pact between his Fatah and the extremist…

You can skip strait to the good stuff which begins about 7 minutes in. In related news Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat said: If ’67 lines are an illusion, peace is an illusion. I think he got that one right. The Hamas Charter calls for the extermination of the Israeli Jews. To start with. But…

A couple of videos about how we are slowly losing our liberties. Except in the past few years the trend has accelerated. The title of this post refers to this video which was suggested by JPFO: The below video was suggested by Eric at Dogs and veterans given equal treatment. Watch the latest video at…

Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your POV, I am not advising Barack Obama. But if I was, I would tell him that right now is an excellent time to make good on his campaign threat to invade Pakistan, and simply go in there and take out that dysfunctional country’s nuclear capabilities. If he does nothing,…

While it certainly does not rank with the fatal SWAT Team shooting of a Marine veteran at home with his family, I recently learned about another fatal SWAT Team shooting — not of a human being but of a dog. The video shows a Labrador retriever (named Sheba) doing nothing more than sitting peaceably on…

I was discussing the drug war as it relates to the Baptist/Bootlegger coalition and made this point: It is supremely ironic how “the truly God fearing” are so susceptible to Devils. All the Government has to do is to make a big enough image of a Devil and the Baptists fall right in line. The…