Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The Democrats appear to be in a lot of pain. Their hopes and dreams appear to be fading away. Normally they don’t start getting desperate until October. This is an early crash. Even by Kerry standards. “They were set up to run ‘experience versus change,’ what they had run [against Hillary] Clinton,” Trippi said. “And…

Fascinating. Seven years into the war that officially started with the 9/11 attack, and even though Al Qaeda is serving up yet another boastful video, a large part of the world still claims not to know who was responsible for 9/11. The survey of 16,063 people in 17 nations found majorities in only nine countries…

Barack is in trouble. So says Mind Ray Magician Karl Rove. If Mr. Obama keeps attacking Mrs. Palin, he could suffer the fate of his Democratic predecessors. These assaults highlight his own tissue-thin résumé, waste precious time better spent reassuring voters he is up for the job, and diminish him — not her. Consider Mr.…

Why, because the great Porky Pig defeated a suicide bomber, that’s why. And here’s the video to prove it. Watch for yourself. So now you know. UPDATE: My thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the link, and a warm welcome to all. For those who have trouble with the above, the YouTube link is here, and…

In a fairly major news story today, I see that “community organizer” is now code language for race. [New York Governor] Paterson referred to McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin who compared her work experience to Obama’s. “So I suppose a small town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except with real responsibilities,” she…

“These are serious times and they call for a serious debate…spare me all the phony outrage. Spare me all the phony talk about change.” I’d name the politician who said that, but it would spoil the suspense. I have to say, though, that I enjoy phony outrage, and I don’t understand why people are so…

Barbara Oakley (author of Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend) is puzzled by the fact that psychologists (and many “social scientists”) continue to oppose growing evidence that psychopathology has a strong biological and genetic component. Noting that “the DSM in its current incarnation hasn’t incorporated…

∅bama has made a statement about pigs in lipstick that seems to insult Sarah Palin. In fact it seems to have insulted a lot of women. If it was unintentional – ∅bama is a stupid politician. If it was intentional – ∅bama is a stupid politician. Proof positive you can have it both ways. Which…

Evidently followers of ∅ don’t want you to see the YouTube version of the video. So I have changed services. It is also available here.

There is a whole lot of smoke about Obama’s latest insult of the McCain/Palin Campaign. Instapundit has a good roundup. It appears that Obama is resorting to something called the dozens. An art form popular in the ghetto where males hurl insults at each other to prove their manhood. “The Dozens”, also known as “Yo…

Proving I guess that he has an intuitive instinct for insinuation, Barack Obama (always one to stay above “that kind of politics”) made fun of Sarah Palin with a very clever pig reference: Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin’s new “change” mantra. “You can put lipstick on a pig,” he said as the crowd…

To a suggestion that the Soviet Union encourage Catholicism in order to mollify the Pope during World War II, Joseph Stalin famously replied, The Pope? How many divisions has he got? Cold-blooded and amoral, perhaps, but calculating political realities works pretty much the same way. It may sound coldly calculating, but in politics, it’s votes…

“Nationalization” is a word normally associated with socialist dictators and petty Third World tyrants. In this country, the government is not supposed to nationalize companies, much less entire industries. Instead, it bails them out or buys them up when they run into trouble. The end result? The government runs them just as if they had…

A few days ago American Thinker did a post on how the ∅bama money machine was breaking down. We have heard quite a lot over the past year about Barack Obama’s fund raising prowess. But the good times may be over. Now it suddenly appears that John McCain and his campaign are no slouches in…

H/T No Quarter

For those of you who frequent Just One Minute you would know the guy being interviewed better as commenter Charlie(Colorado). You can find more details on his rumor control pages with links at Palin Rumor Control.

It seems like I have a commenter who doesn’t like hick bitches. Especially if they are from Alaska. I would personally like to thank the commenter for driving the bitch vote, the hick vote, and the hick bitch vote to MCain/Palin. I’m sure they will welcome with open arms all the votes ∅ doesn’t need.…

In an editorial titled “Can You Say ‘Sexist’?“, Newsweek’s Anna Quindlen brings up an incident from November of last year in an attempt to prove that McCain endorses calling women “bitches.” John McCain has been no advocate for women; when asked during the primaries, on the subject of Senator Clinton, “How do we beat the…

∅bama said today: Obama told the crowd that McCain and Palin spent most of the convention talking about their biographies. Palin’s bio is “compelling,” Obama said. The crowd booed. “No, it’s an interesting story.” More boos. “No, no, it is. I mean that sincerely. Mother, governor, moose shooter.” I thought ∅bama needed the votes of…