Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

    Lawyers, Guns, and Money      

    For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, free from the lust of result, is in every way perfect.       About 3 1/2 minutes.

The ideal in socialism is that everyone gets enough to eat. The ideal in capitalism is that everyone gets what they want to eat. Suggested by: Where You Cannot Generalize from Knowledge of Parts. An excerpt: Much of the local research in experimental biology, in spite of its seemingly “scientific” and evidentiary attributes fail a…

About 54 minutes     The Kick Over The Table stuff starts at about 18 minutes in. I think that is exemplified by what he is already doing at the DOE. Trump as the anti-John Galt starts at 28 1/2 minutes in. I covered what Newt was talking about at Donald Trump A Fan Of…

      The operative question here is “Are you still breathing?”

The words as given by the YouTube site Spread out now Rosie doctor come cut loose her mama’s reins You know playin’ blind man’s bluff is a little baby’s game You pick up Little Dynamite I’m gonna pick up Little Gun And together we’re gonna go out tonight and make that highway run You don’t…

I wrote a while back that Peter Thiel, a close Trump advisor, has invested heavily in Marley brand cannabis. If that sort of thing is of interest you can go here for reviews and assays of Marley herbal products. But this is about politics. And the politics is getting interesting. After picking more than a…

4:44 AM Central Time. The days will start getting longer in the Northern Hemisphere.

Fun fact: Hillary Clinton lost the most electors of any candidate in 100 years.#ElectoralCollege pic.twitter.com/vrYwkAjzw1 — Tennessee GOP (@TEN_GOP) December 19, 2016

(About 2 1/2 minutes)       Electors faithful to Trump, select him as official winner H/T Going Sunny

With all the talk about Russian hacking, why are we putting the Power Grid on the Internet? The so called “Smart Grid” initiative is a stupid idea. I have written quite a few articles on the stupidity of the “Smart Grid”. Here are some of them: Slave Meters Domestic Terrorism? Smart Grid Insecurity The Smart…

Gail Combs alerted me to this story: Ayn Rand-acolyte Donald Trump stacks his cabinet with fellow objectivists. Well isn’t that interesting? Yes. It is. Well, let me do some excerpting and analyzing. THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump has decided to risk a confirmation fight, officially nominating ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson to be secretary of…

After spending a lot of time on the ‘net (too much) I have come to some conclusions about the recent election. I was discussing those conclusions with the blog master at this blog post. It turns out that each side of the two main opposing groups in the last election is sure the other side…

Jill Stein has uncovered voter fraud in Michigan. Except I’m sure it is not what she was hoping for. The recount crusade of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein may have turned up massive voter irregularities, but they’re not the kind Democrats were hoping to find. In heavily-Democratic Detroit, more votes than voters were found…

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