Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Anyone remember Jill Greenberg, the far left photographer who deliberately made children cry for photographs so she could depict them as victims of the religious right? Her rationale was along these lines: I also thought they made a kind of political statement about the current state of anxiety a lot of people are in about…

Last night, M. Simon touched on an important theme in American politics when he opined that Barack Obama, has come off as weak. And as I pointed out in Midway for Obama, Americans do not elect weaklings to office. How true. Say what you want about Bush, but weakness is not the first thing that…

Via a link from Darleen Click, I was drawn to a discussion of copyright law at Rolling Stone. The lefties are pissed that the Republicans played the song “Barracuda” — because it turns out that the copyright holders don’t like Republicans: Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has the nickname “Barracuda,” which inspired the use…

It seems things are not going well for The One we have been waiting for. In fact it seems like fewer and fewer people are waiting for him. The Democratic presidential candidate’s slump in the polls has sparked pointed private criticism that he is squandering a once-in-a-generation chance to win back the White House. Party…

The singer is Gretchen Wilson. H/T Vanderleun

Democratic political strategist Mark Penn pointed out in a recent CBS interview that the media’s targeting of Sarah Palin is hurting the media more than it’s hurting Palin: CBSNews.com: Your former colleague Howard Wolfson argued that you all unintentionally paved the way for Palin by exposing some of the unfair media coverage that Hillary Clinton…

Jennifer Rubin has a carefully researched piece titled Obama and the Woods Fund (“Woods Hole” ought to be the outfit’s name, but I guess that name’s already taken). The whole piece is a must-read, I want to focus on a seemingly innocuous (and largely obscure) outfit with the gently nutty name of ACORN: Another recipient…

You can watch part one of the interview at In Her Own Words. One interesting aspect of this exercise is the fact that when Charlie Gibson interviewed Obama he gave him a bunch of softball questions. Palin was hit hard on all kinds of policy questions. ∅bama? Not so much. Here is the first question…

The ∅ campaign is mocking McCain for being a computer illiterate in their latest ad. NEW YORK (AP) — John McCain is mocked as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate in a television commercial out Friday from Barack Obama as the Democrat begins his sharpest barrage yet on McCain’s long Washington career. The new fighting spirit…

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I’m not sure the old saying “everbody loves a winner” always applies to political winners. I think it might have more to do with the fact that in politics people love underdogs, and distrust “winners” when they display too much arrogance. (Nobody likes sore losers, but sore winners are unbearable.) In an earlier post, M.…

Today’s Detroit Free Press has a real horror story about a family which was torn apart by zealous bureaucrats acting in the name of a cruel superstition called “facilitated communication.” According to the educrats who believe in this discredited nonsense, autistic children “communicate” by having their hands placed on computer keyboards, while the “facilitator” types…

H/T Vanderleun

The Democrat chances in November appear to be declining at a very rapid pace. Their numbers are falling off a cliff. Democratic jitters about the US presidential race have spread to Capitol Hill, where some members of Congress are worried that Barack Obama’s faltering campaign could hurt their chances of re-election. Party leaders have been…

Speaking of crime, a recent psychopathic hammer attack in Philadelphia has been getting national attention. The lead story is titled “Psycho hammers subway passenger“: As the SEPTA subway train rocked forward, a thirty-something guy leaned over near the doorway and gently planted a kiss on the little boy at his side. When the train neared…

It’s not every day that I see a headline reading “Man rubbed with spices, other beaten with sausage,” but that’s what’s in the news: FRESNO, Calif. — A stranger broke into a home east of Fresno, rubbed spices on the body of one of two men as they slept and used an 8-inch sausage to…

Here is the Charlie Gibson Sarah Palin Interview. Let me start you out with a question or two and then go read the whole thing. GIBSON: Governor, let me start by asking you a question that I asked John McCain about you, and it is really the central question. Can you look the country in…