Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

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The election is over, says Howard Wolfson. It’s over because the economy is more important than Bill Ayers, and therefore, what Wolfson calls “swiftboat tactics” won’t work. While I often wish the election were over so I could blog about other things, Wolfson’s simplistic dichotomy rests on two major assumptions: 1. that the current economic…

Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Cross Posted at Power and Control

Is this some kind of prank? Please tell me it is. I can’t stand much more of this nonsense. You’d almost think they were inviting people to violate Godwin’s Law. Seriously, I want it to be comedy.

Spengler explains why America with all its problems is still a safe haven for the world’s capital. He blames it on hockey moms. Why do Asian investors depend on American capital markets? Given the near breakdown of key sectors of the American market, one might expect Asians to bring their money home. Quite the opposite…

It occurs to me that I may have missed a latent homophobia-tinged subtext somewhere in the last post (about the sexist and racist aspects of Photoshopping candidates into the “Rosie” World War II icon now claimed by feminists). Any such omission was inadvertent — whether there was any homophobic subext to be found or not.…

When I saw a picture of this button in today’s Detroit Free Press, I was, well, riveted! But I immediately realized I was falling behind the times. I’m late to the “Rosie” game, because I see that Sarah Palin’s face on the iconic image has already drawn feminist criticism: Today a colleague of mine showed…

B. Obama and unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers were on a panel together in 1997 sponsored by the University of Chicago discussing Bill’s book A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court. Bill thinks the government can be a good parent to children as opposed to the bad parents who allow kids into a…

Sarah Palin made a surprise visit to the town I grew up in. Omaha. Sarah Palin’s fans could give Obamaphiles a run in the devotion department if the more than 5,000 people who listened Sunday to her Omaha speech are any indication. Palin’s supporters hailed the folksy Alaska governor as a “real person” who could…

“blogging is about living freely in writing, in real time, in front of the world.” — Althouse “I do this to entertain me, not you.” — SayUncle “finding a needle in a haystack is easy when the straws are all computerized” — Dexter I like to think that I live freely in my writing, that…

More than one person has asked me why the polls are so out of whack with what they see as their reality. So what is that reality? I think a few anecdotes are in order. First from commenter Daddy at Just One Minute. Arriving in Indy about midnight I asked the 2 female bus drivers…

Sarah Palin commented on the New York Times story I discussed yesterday, and here’s what she said: “Turns out one of Barack’s earliest supporters is a man who, according to The New York Times, and they are hardly ever wrong, was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, launched a campaign of…

One of Andrew Sullivan’s ever-at-the-ready readers is upset by the fact that Sarah Palin winked, and compares her unfavorably to other women: I just want to ask: can anyone, anyone, imagine Condoleeza Rice or Margaret Thatcher or even Hillary Clinton for God’s sake, winking at the nation and/or being coquettish in any national format? Yeah.…

It seems like the Obamas paid a lot of money for law degrees and yet they no longer have licenses. That is kind of strange. Let us start with Barack and see if we can trace the demise of his law career. Obama relinquished his Illinois law license in early 2007. Why would Obama give…

Let us see if we can follow how the descent into hell all began for Obama. Let us start with Community organizer Saul Alinsky and his friend the Devil and as in all evil, work backwards from there. Alinsky’s paragon of radicalism was Satan, to whom he dedicated the first edition of “Rules”: “Lest we…

Considering the number of posts I have written about Barack Obama’s friendship and collaboration with unrepentant former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers, I guess I should acknowledge — however grudgingly — that the New York Times has (on a Saturday, as Glenn noted) finally reported that the connections between these men are deeper than previously…

Could Obama’s real father be Frank Marshall Davis? That would explain why his grandparents encouraged him to spend so much time with Frank. It would also explain why Andrew Sullivan is so interested in the Palin family genealogy chart. It is all part of an orchestrated distraction from the real questions in this campaign. It…

A number of people have noted that Obama was looking off to the left a lot in the first debate with McCain. One of them is A. J. Strata and he has a theory. We seem to go round and round again these days on whether candidates have ear pieces (and these days they can…

Yesterday I revealed that because both of the two major candidates are disqualified from being president, the election is a nullity, because no matter who “wins,” the result will be the final triumph of Bush fascism: What has Bush always wanted more than anything else? Why, the cancellation of elections and the permanent implementation of…