Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Well you didn’t hear it here first. That would have been a June story at Politico. In a letter to the U.S. District judge who presided over his trial, Rezko, who was convicted this month of 16 corruption-related counts, including fraud and money laundering, called prosecutors “overzealous.” And he singled out what he said were…

It looks like Britain will be losing its electrical supply before too long. It was in July of this year that the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee – prop. Tim Yeo – told the government that it must set a deadline for coal-fired power stations to install technology massively to cut their emissions, or…

What happens when the government doesn’t bail out failed companies that make cars? Believe it or not, it has actually been done! A friend emailed me a link to this article about the ruins of the Packard plant, closed five decades ago. Titled “When the Cars Go Away,” the piece details the vastness of the…

I got hit with some malware a couple of days ago specifically the virtumonde infection. I have Webroot Spy Sweeper which is supposedly top rated and it did not clean it out. Part of that may be because I have not had the funds to renew my subscription. So I went looking for something within…

It looks like the Sun’s magnetic field may control climate (which is average weather)and can be used to predict rainfall. ScienceDaily (Dec. 3, 2008) — The sun’s magnetic field may have a significant impact on weather and climatic parameters in Australia and other countries in the northern and southern hemispheres. According to a study in…

When I read today’s admission by Glenn Reynolds that he was confused by an attack on his “hypermasculinity,” I became more confused than I was before. And that’s a lot, because few people are more confused than I am where it comes to masculinity, um, issues. Seriously, how’s this for confusion? …what I’m wondering right…

In this Google Tech Talk from about 28 February 2007 you can see Incoming Energy Secretary Steven Chu discussing what he knows about Bussard Fusion about 1 hour 1 minute and 10 seconds into the video. The rest of the talk is about alternative energy, power sources for the future, and how to run a…

So says veteran Clinton troubleshooter Lanny Davis about Governor Blagojevich’s Obama Senate Seat Deal. (Hmm… Is “Seatgate” taken or would that be confused with a hard drive company?) Obama said on Tuesday that he never spoke with the governor about the seat, and prosecutors said neither Obama nor his advisers have been implicated. At the…

A new energy czar has been picked by the incoming administration. Steven Chu, 60 years old, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, will be nominated as secretary of energy, Democratic officials said Wednesday. The Smartest President Elect Ever™ appears intent on further hobbling the economy with more command and…

It looks like the unpopular auto company bail out is going to have a tough time passing in the current Congress. Republicans were preparing a strong fight against the aid plan in the Senate, not only taking on the Democrats but standing in open revolt against their party’s lame-duck president on the measure. The Republicans…

Bob Lutz the operating head of General Motors says if Congress requires the car companies to build small ultra fuel efficient vehicles they will have to be sold at a loss. Now that is a truly brilliant way to help car companies that are losing money. Leave it to Bob Lutz, GM’s voluble vice chairman,…

Television station KHQA reported that B. Obama met with Governor Blagojevich shortly after the election to discuss his replacement for the US Senate seat he was vacating. By Alexis Hunt – Saturday, November 08, 2008 at 9:48 p.m. QUINCY, IL — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in…

I’m hoping readers will bear with me for the next few weeks. I’m in the middle of a big renovation project and time is of the essence, which leaves little time for blogging. However, just to show I care about what’s going on in the real world, I actually took time out of my busy…

The land deal between Tony Rezko and B. Obama for his house in Hyde Park is explained by GOP Mom. It is rather complicated but the bottom line is that Rezko subsidized Obama’s purchase of the house and land giving Obama what amounted to at least a $130,000 discount. There are maps and pictures and…

Watch CBS Videos Online Start the clip and then close your eyes while you listen to Obama’s voice. Obama sounds shaky. In fact he sounds to me like a guy waiting for the other shoe to drop. Jake Tapper at his ABC News blog has a few words about Obama’s relationship with “Hot Rod” Blagojevich.…

Obama said today that he had no contact with Democrat Governor Blagojevich of Illinois about the appointment to Obama’s former Senate seat. CHICAGO (AP) – President-elect Barack Obama says he is saddened by allegations that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to trade favors for Obama’s Senate seat–and says he had no contact with the governor…