Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Here is what he had to say. Today is November 20, 2016. As many of you know, I spent the week before last in jail. The judge had ordered me to serve a 10 day sentence in addition to fines. This was in relation to the trial last year which has been under appeal for…

Email is not a secure means of communication. This simple fact has been known since there was email. This is so obvious that there really should be no need for me to say it, and it ought not require serious commentary. Here’s why: Email could be intercepted and accessed by an unauthorized party Email could be…

SNL can laugh all they want, but the DEA is a deeply corrupt organization that should be abolished, which makes this video more on point than they realize. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KAATMlalC4 Anyway, the EPA deserves to be cut down to size, and as I said before, I support that. So what makes the DEA so damned sacred?

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I saw a comment at this marvelous video that explains where at least some of the Trump Democrats were coming from. CHAS1422 I changed my party affiliation 6 months ago. I voted in Trump and accepted him as the pro-wrestling version of Demosthenes. Trump is the medicine to the inculcated echo chamber of the left.…

About 13 minutes. Styx makes the point that all the “fake news” screaming may be because those doing the screaming are afraid of some upcoming revelation. He doesn’t think it is #Pizzagate. I think it might be. Why? Because the CIA is one of the agencies doing the screaming. Compromising an intelligence target is a…

Someone has noted that the flag is upside down. That brings up some questions. If the flag has an “up” side does that mean some of the colors are more important than others? Are there “down side” colors? Shouldn’t everyone be in the upper half? At least. And why do the colors have to come…

I have long balked at paying exorbitant prices for high-priced “gourmet” hamburgers and “gourmet” pizza. I have similar feelings about high-priced tacos, but never considered that the latter feelings are grounded in racism: Urbanites may have the advantage of living in places where regional cuisines from far-flung countries are readily available, but we need to collectively…

So says Newsweek‘s real “Madam President” about so-called “fake news.” Hillary Clinton on Thursday decried the spread of fake news online, calling it an “epidemic” that Congress should take action against. “The epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past year — it’s now clear the so-called fake…

Hard to believe it, but today is the 75th Anniversary of that dastardly deed. There are only a hundred or so survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack still alive, and while I am of course glad to see they are being remembered, the attack itself must never be forgotten, as it is a lesson on preparedness.

I’ve been pretty quiet about Trump, but if this is true — if he is encouraging the murder of drug addicts — then the man is worse than I imagined possible. I respect disagreements over policy positions, but encouraging outright murder of people for having what is a medical problem crosses a line in a…

About 19 minutes He predicts the fall of the Democrats to the Greens and the further rise of the Libertarians.

Clearly, the ranting woman in this widely circulated video is nuts. But look at the two people closely. What does race have to do with it? The irony, of course, is that while the nutcase passenger who is yelling at the Assyrian woman seems to have assumed she was a Muslim, Assyrians are Christian, and the…

Donald Trump has already taken office. With the Carrier deal and now Ford among many who want to start dealing with Trump, the Obama Presidency is over. A month and three weeks prematurely. I don’t recall ever seeing anything like it.

HotGas changed its name to Sparta Report. In honor of the name change I thought this might be amusing.

Space is full of something. H/T p.g.sharrow

This guy forced me. So here it is.     A Gay CEO, an Irish Catholic, and the Orange man walk into a San Francisco bar. The Gay CEO says, “I’ll have a Marley* “. The Irish Catholic says, “That is a sin”. The Orange man says, “I’ll have a water”. The Irish Catholic says,…

About 1 minute The rally pictured was held on 29 October 2015 in Reno/Sparks, Nevada. With all the Prohibitionists he has been nominating ( Jeff Sessions and Tom Price among them ), it is good to know that Peter Thiel is one of his closest advisors. And just so you get the right idea about…

“The more obvious the failure becomes, the more shamelessly they [the prohibitionists] exhibit their genuine motives. In plain words, what moves them is the psychological aberration called sadism. They lust to inflict inconvenience, discomfort, and whenever possible, disgrace upon the persons they hate — which is to say, upon everyone who is free from their…