Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Obama has said he didn’t hear firsthand any of “Wrong Way” Wright’s anti-American diatribes. It appears that that statement is not entirely correct. Contrary to Senator Barack Obama’s claim that he never heard his pastor Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. preach hatred of America, Obama was in the pews last July 22 when the minister blamed…

Eric is asking if A should be held responsible for the statements of B? I think it depends on the degree of the association. You know kind of weighted. Or in more technical terms. Fuzzy logic. One thing we can say for sure (assuming humans are free actors and can choose acting against interest) is…

Is there such a thing as Election Burnout Syndrome? I don’t know, but I do know that am really tired of the election, and sicker than I can ever remember being sick of any election before. The worst aspect of being burned out now is that technically, they have not yet really begun to fight,…

Like all criminal organizations the Democrat Party is falling apart over the division of the spoils.

In a comment to an earlier post, I opined that Hillary has a far better chance of beating McCain than Obama ever would, which is why I questioned the motives of some of the Republicans who support her. But in this topsy-turvy state of affairs created by massive crossover voting (25% of Clinton’s voters in…

It seems a lot of Democrat Party donors are not satisfied with the way the primaries are going and promise to withhold donations if their complaints are not resolved. Democrats in Michigan and Florida struggled Friday to resolve the impasse over their disputed January primaries, coming up with a plan to hold a June primary…

Instapundit put out a call for help and messages of support for a blogger whose wife was suffering from severe rheumatoid arthritis. So I did my usual and checked to see if marijuana would be of any help. And what do you know. (the numbers in the text refer to footnotes from here) Recent research…

I’ve just been watching Barack Obama on the hot seat at Fox News — doing his best to defend himself in the face of the Jeremiah “GOD DAMN AMERICA” Wright stuff. They’re running the Wright videos over and over and Obama is clearly feeling the heat. Some of the commentators raised the issue of the…

While I eat my vegetables, I haven’t really seen much by way of the future in them. Other than, perhaps, I eat them in order to prolong my stay on the planet. But Glenn Reynolds linked an interesting idea — whether asparagus and other vegetables might be useful as fortune telling devices: I never suspected…

Bloomberg News has an article up on why it will be difficult to support the nuclear renaissance currently planed. Here is the money quote: “I find it just amazing that so many people jumped on the bandwagon of this renaissance without ever looking at the industrial side of it,” Schneider said. It would take any…

Anyone get a load of Harry Reid’s fireside chat? It was very picturesque — right down to the details of a split-wood fire: It was the 75th anniversary of President Roosevelt’s first Fireside Chat in 1933, delivered in the depths of the Great Depression. But with FDR long gone and a Republican in the White…

“Ruth Henderson” (pseudonymous name of a former booking agent for high-priced Manhattan call girls) has written a Pajamas Media piece about high-priced prostitution, and she explores the whys of prostitution: …why would a rich, powerful and handsome man pay for extra-marital sex? Aren’t there tons of women waiting to throw themselves at him for free?…

H/T LGF

A lot of attention is being paid to the video of the pro-Obama, anti-American minister Jeremiah Wright. Similarly, a lot of attention is being paid to Eliot Spitzer’s heterosexual prostitution scandal. I believe in being fair, and I’ve written two posts about Obama’s “gay” scandal, as well as two posts about Spitzer. And M. Simon…

It looks like we are finally going to have the long awaited discussion (when did it ever stop) of race in this country and Obama’s spiritual mentor is going to lead it. Not necessarily in the direction he intended. His mentor comes with a mind set which says that poverty is caused by some (white)…

Everybody wants to be first. It’s an American tradition. Right now, there are a lot of “firsts” going around, and the Democratic Party seems to be engaged in a historic struggle over not so much who is first, but over who has the right (an entitlement, as it were) to be first. Technically, Barack Obama…

After dithering about for a day or so Elliot Spitzer will soon be the former governor of New York. I think if Hillary had not been running as a Senator from NY with baggage, he might have held on. He got caught in a power squeeze. And dragging his wife on stage (see picture at…

While I love and defend the free market system, one of the things I most hate about it is that because of the constantly changing nature and range of products for sale, there’s no way to evaluate what you’re buying until after you’ve bought it, and worst of all, there’s no guarantee that something you…

Yesterday, I opined that what’s happening to Eliot Spitzer couldn’t be happening to a nicer guy. That’s because he’s part and parcel of the system that did and does to people the very things that are now likely to be done to him. Roger Kimball (via Glenn Reynolds) questioned whether Spitzer is a genuine hypocrite,…

Why do some “ladies” get paid thousands an hour for sex services? Supply and demand. It is not just about sex. It is also a social occasion. You might actually want to have a conversation with the lady between “jumps”. Now how many upper middle class well educated good looking ladies do you find who…