Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Easy. The McCain-Clinton 2008 Unity Ticket: Don’t Intrade’s numbers suggest a winning strategy for McCain and Clinton is to do a unity ticket together? I know this must have been suggested before (probably on NRO), but Intrade’s making me think it’s a good strategy for them. McCain will win the Republican nomination (94.1), but Intrade…

I’ll be glad when this election is over. I don’t think people realize the danger this country is in, and I’m not enjoying seeing Hillary Clinton (aka “The Clintons”) being endorsed by so many people who ought to know better — apparently because they really and truly think she’d be better than Barack Obama. While…

It appears Barrack “the Change” Hussein Obama is in trouble. The denials were sweeping when Senator Barack Obama’s campaign mobilized last week to refute a report that a senior official had given back-channel reassurances to Canada soft-pedaling Mr. Obama’s tough talk on Nafta. While campaigning in Ohio, Mr. Obama has harshly criticized the North American…

And also a good example of my playing hookey from blogging, but I found a truly great recording of what I think may be the best Grateful Dead show ever, from the Capitol Theater on February 18, 1971. The entire show can be streamed or downloaded here, and the songlist follows: Bertha*, Truckin’, It Hurts…

The campaign for the presidency just keeps getting more and more surreal. Reading Pajamas Media’s roundup on today’s events, I found this gem — an apparently accurate quote from Hillary Clinton: “I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. Sen. John McCain has a lifetime of…

If I were an old fashioned sexist pig, I’d love Gloria Steinem. No seriously. I really would. While no reasonable person would call her a “leader” of women, to the extent she is perceived as that, she makes women who follow her (“all” feminist women, to sexist men who believe in stereotypes) look like absolute…

Michael Goodwin thinks that tomorrow’s election is not so much Hillary’s last stand as it is Obama’s last chance: This is Barack Obama’s third chance to knock her out. If he can’t close the deal this time, maybe he can’t close the deal, period. Either the third time is the charm for him, or it…

John Fund has joined a growing chorus of conservative bloggers in asserting that the MSM has not given the Rezko affair the scrutiny it deserves. But is this all because of pro-Obama bias? I’m not so sure that’s the only reason, because it does not explain the failure of pro-Hillary newspapers to scrutinize Obama’s dealings…

I haven’t been following the news much lately. I’ve been more interested in working on The Bussard Fusion Reactor (BFR). So I missed the beginnings of happenings in Gaza. So for those of you as out of the loop as I am and for those interested in a recap and the latest news. Here goes.…

It seems the Palestinians have invented a new sport destined for the Olympics. They call it baby rushing. Tiny victim : A Palestinian medical worker rushes a baby into the hospital in Gaza City. (AFP/Said Khatib) Israelly Cool explains. Not much of a caption. Brief and to the (painful) point. But look at the picture…

Read this. AS Barack Obama enters the final stages of the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, he is preparing to detach the core voters of John McCain, the likely Republican nominee, with the same ruthless determination with which he has peeled off Hillary Clinton’s supporters. The scene is set for a tussle between the…

Remember the good old days when the Clintons were being accused of racializing the campaign? Lots of pundits and bloggers chimed in almost gleefully, with those on the right side of the political spectrum making no secret of their delight to see Hillary and her supporters hoisted by their own petard. Well, that is now…

I don’t watch much television, and while I once heard of the show called “Frasier,” I never watched it. But as my luck would have it, I am now in possession of a number of DVDs of the show. (I found them lying by the side of the road all covered with mud and grime…

I hate it when this happens. Actually, this is a double “I-hate-it-when-this-happens” post. That’s because last night I tried to write a post explaining why I hated the fact that only a day after I commended McCain’s approach to handling bigoted supporters (in contrast to Obama’s inept approach) the question resurfaced — this time taking…

If you’re stuck with a name (or part of a name) you don’t especially like, are you entitled to start calling yourself something else? If you do that, do the circumstances change if you run for president? Obviously, I’m thinking about this because of the “Barack Hussein Obama” flap. I don’t know what the rules…

There is no truth to the report that Obama contacted the Candians and said “I’m serious about gutting NAFTA” [Youtube]. Instapundit remarks: REBUILDING AMERICA’S IMAGE IN THE WORLD (CONT’D): “Mexico and Canada yesterday voiced concerns about calls by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, as the Democratic presidential…

I don’t know why, but Reuters is circulating a picture of a wide-eyed, glowing, Hillary Clinton standing in front of a leering devil. Naturally, Drudge has linked it, with a headline calling her a devil right under other headlines announcing how close she is in Ohio and Texas. Meanwhile, in what’s being buried as a…

Andrew Sullivan has been complaining that Glenn Reynolds is “passive-agressive,” and while Glenn said Andrew was clueless, I’m even more clueless, as I don’t know what passive-aggressive means in this new context. No seriously. If Glenn’s approach — linking interesting stuff like this — is passive-aggressive (er, “Mr Passive-Aggressive” seems to be the correct term),…

I don’t know whether what I’m about to quote from is the Talk Left piece Glenn Reynolds linked earlier, but I couldn’t get it to open, and I found this anyway. Whether it’s the same piece or not, it’s just too rich for me to ignore. Former San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez…

Ann Althouse has the most detailed analysis I’ve seen of Barack Obama’s tap-dancing performance over the Farrakhan endorsement. I don’t want to dissect the back and forth in the debate in detail, as Althouse has already done a marvelous job. Basically, Hillary Clinton had Obama dead to rights, but then she blew it. I think…