Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I thought I’d take another look at some hard Pennsylvania numbers. I’ll start with the Republican primary vote totals: Republican Pres. Primary (99% of vote) John McCain. . . 587,168 Ron Paul. . . 128,467 Mike Huckabee. . . 91,423 Republican total. . . 807,058 Not that these low numbers mean much, but as a…

Jeff Gold of Stop Obama uses this picture to tell a story about what some folks are planning for the Democrat Convention in Denver and The Republican Convention in St. Paul. I think it is part of Rove’s secret plan to energize the Republican base despite the fact that there is a lot of bad…

John McCain says that the North Carolina GOP should pull the “offensive advertisement”. Wonderful John. Are you so stupid about the Internet that you fail to realize that such a call will only draw more attention to it? Heh. H/T Instapundit

What’s happening is an excellent argument for smoke filled rooms. I can’t believe I said that, but I did, in the heat of stress last night. Right now it’s looking pretty good. Not just because I hate elections, and not just because this one is the biggest mess I’ve seen, but because regardless of who…

A good question from Mickey Kaus: If Hillary Clinton is so convinced she can win, but she desperately needs money, can’t she and her husband just write her campaign a check for, say, $20 million? $109 million – $20 million still leaves $89 million, no? … Then she’d be on solid ground asking others to…

I’m having trouble seeing much difference between them. Not only are they right next to each other, they have similar population density (Ohio, with 11,353,140, is ranked 7th, while Pennsylvania, with 12,281,054, is 6th) similar geography (Pennsylvania is ranked 33rd with 46,055 square miles, and Ohio is ranked 34th with 44,825 square miles), and similar…

I was just a guest on Steve Gill’s radio show discussing yesterday’s Pennsylvania primary election, and I’d like to thank Steve (who also writes for Pajamas Media) and his producers for their hospitality, as well as the Pajamas Media reps who made this possible. (As I’ve pointed out before, I think I have a radio…

Don’t miss Rick Moran’s analysis of yesterday’s election. Excerpt: Hillary Clinton received 62% of the white vote. Barack Obama received 89% of the African American vote. The question facing superdelegates is: how can they run a candidate who loses the white vote by almost 2-1 in a state they absolutely must carry to win the…

Quick, would someone please tell the Democrats that we’re not in a recession? I don’t know who the candidate will be (and God help us if it’s Hillary, because I’m not convinced McCain can beat her), but both Hill and O take it as an article of faith that we are in a recession, that…

Jeff Gold of Stop Obama is discussing the plans of Recreate ’68 to disrupt the Democrat convention in Denver in order to make sure Obama gets the nomination. A Brown Shirt operation. …Obama supporters – lovers of popular democracy – are already threatening to tear down the Democratic Convention in Denver. They call themselves “Recreate…

Anxiety Insights reports that the inability to identify odors may be an indication of severe PTSD. A world first study of Vietnam veterans’ sense of smell has revealed that an inability to identify smells indicates extreme symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Austin Health conducting smell tests…

The site is up now. You can read a report of the hack at StopObama.Org. My guess? The Democrats at StopObama must be causing the Obama folks a lot of pain.

Spengler at The Asia Times is taking a look at the world food crisis and sees it as a monetary phenomenon. He has charts and graphs. I think he is right. The global food crisis is a monetary phenomenon, an unintended consequence of America’s attempt to inflate its way out of a market failure. There…

HT a friend

Well the polls have closed and it’s now time to watch the returns. So far, it’s too early to tell anything. (Yeah, Drudge and others have reported various exit polls saying it’s too close to call, but I try to ignore them.) First thing I heard on CNN confirmed that the voting machine irregularity I…

I sent out this link in an email earlier, remarking lackadaisically that Hillary had eaten a cheesesteak in nearby Conshohocken (while Obama ate at a diner in Pittsburgh). When I was reminded in a reply of the possible hazards of cheesesteaks (in particular, that a human being is supposed to “lose two weeks of life…

For some time now, I’ve been trying to figure out what would motivate a Republican to cross party lines and vote for Hillary even if he thought that Hillary would have a better chance of beating McCain than Obama. I have tended to assume that hatred of McCain or wanting the GOP to lose would…

It is unknown why lemming populations fluctuate with such variance roughly every four years, before plummeting to near extinction. — Wiki Lemming entry Well, you gotta admit, as four year plans go, there’s nothing like starting with a clean slate. In fairness, though, it should be noted that while lemmings do occasionally jump from cliffs…

Earth Day is fast upon us, and rather than crank out yet another primal scream of dismay, I have chosen (lazy me) to dredge the archives for crunchy nuggets of eco-wisdom past. They do say it’s virtuous to recycle. Earth Day: The Remix… “We have about five more years at the outside to do something,”…

When I got up this morning, today’s much-anticipated Philadelphia Inquirer endorsement was available only online. Well, for me, at least. And for my neighbors. I looked around, and no, they didn’t just miss my driveway; there were no Inquirers to be found anywhere. Occasionally I’ll have a missed delivery problem, but no papers anywhere is…