Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

While it may be a contradiction (and it’s certainly rare in politics), I think Ann Althouse comes close to displaying it in her discussion of McCain: I really don’t care if he considered changing parties or not. I like the people in the middle, like Joe Lieberman, who could fit — but only uncomfortably —…

WHEN THE GOVERNMENT “can come into our homes and decide whether our dogs can have gonads, that’s the day I leave California.” — Carol Hamilton As regular readers to this blog know, the nanny-staters want your dogs’ nuts and ovaries badly — whether you feel like surrendering them or not. Urged on by Bob Barker…

The Justice Department is at it again. Protecting us from unscrupulous doctors. The kind that prescribe too much pain medication for those in pain. In a drama that has been played out all too many times across the country in recent years, the Justice Department’s campaign against prescription drug abuse — if you can call…

I think this falls into Glenn Reynolds’ “THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE REELECTED” category. (I’m not Glenn Reynolds, but I’m going to do an experiment in channeling…) Ahem. THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE REELECTED, public access to places offering unpopular minority views would be restricted, and government…

I was reading at Alphecca about the Brady anti-gun campaign’s rating of various States on the level of their gun prohibition laws. A low rating means a gun friendly state. A high rating means very unfriendly to fire arms. California is very unfriendly. Here is the take of one commenter from California. Of course like…

I hate it when this happens. There I was, minding my own business. (At least, I think fashion in the election is my business — even if I do tend to focus on more extreme examples.) And I stumbled right into a gratuitous attempt by a journalism professor (in an article about fashion in the…

I’ll start with a comment left to the post I wrote late last night: I suspect that some conservatives are thinking in terms of the ‘putting a frog into a pot of hot water’ analogy as opposed to a slow, drawn out death from creeping socialism and the steady encroachment of nanny-statism. Zoological accuracy aside,…

Apparently she prefers her to McCain. At least, so claims Drudge. While it’s tough to evaluate the claim (as the link goes nowhere), if it’s true I’m not surprised at all. I’ve been predicting something along such lines. What I’m still trying to figure out is why McCain didn’t make this list. And why Romney…

I caught just a hint of this picture in the video at Get Some and thought it deserved a closer inspection. Taken from: American Partisan where you can see an even larger version. A history of the picture. It dates from 21 Sept 2001.

A comment Glenn Reynolds made the other day reminded me that everyone has their limit: Bill Quick begs to differ. Hey, for everybody there’s a point at which they’d rather take their marbles and go home. For me it would be Huckabee. For some Democrats it was Gore in 2000 and they voted Nader instead.…

The opening music is not my favorite. It gets better towards the end, for a while. Lyrics in parts NSFW. The video is just excellent. A nice rejoinder to the Bezerkeleyites.

Via Glenn Reynolds, another horrible (thought not unsurprising) story about more anti-military bigotry — this time from Berkeley: …The Berkeley City Council [] voted 8-1 Tuesday night to tell the U.S. Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station “is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited…

My Pet Jawa has a report up on the cyber war between the Taliban and the Jawas. To: Taliban Shura Council CC: Propaganda Dept.; Cyberwarfare; Planning; BCC: Adil ‘Murchal’ Watanmal; Qari Muhammad ‘Ahmadi’ Yussuf; Zabihullah Mujahid From: Rusty Shackleford, The Jawa Report, & Sandcrawler Crew Date: 01/25/2008 Subject: Cyberattack Failure Nice try. Your cyberattacks are…

I keep taking flak for saying that I’m willing to hold my nose and vote for McCain, even though that’s hardly an endorsement of the man. I admit, I like his position on Iraq, and national defense. As to McCain-Feingold, I don’t think I could count the number of angry, even rabid posts I wrote…

Iraq. That’s what I woke up thinking about today. McCain seems to be the only candidate who’s really comfortable talking about it. Hell, he seems to almost want to talk about it. And while it was a a tad disingenuous the way he spun Romney’s timetable talk last night, I think McCain did have a…

A larger question than whether Romney or McCain did a better job at tonight’s debate is whether we should elect a president who “Says She Can Control Her Husband.” Now, I don’t mean to sound sexist, but how would it look if a man running for president promised to control his wife?

Some “two man race” this turned out to be! I just turned on CNN to watch the debate, and what do I see? Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul, that’s who. I hope I have the patience for this. I wouldn’t mind so much if everyone hadn’t been screaming that the race had finally been narrowed…

The US Military has put out a slide show about Al Qaeda In Iraq [pdf]. The first few slides are innocuous enough. After that it gets pretty graphic. Pictures of wounds on torture victims. Mass graves. And other such vileness. After looking at the presentation it is no wonder the Iraqis hate Al Qaeda and…

I’m sick of hearing the phrase, but I have a feeling it’s only going to get louder and shriller in the next few weeks. No I don’t mean the talking points themselves (whatever they are). I’m not a McCain supporter, although I would certainly vote for him over Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Rather, I…

Thank God that Stephen Green is drunkblogging tonight’s results! Having spent the entire day with MCLE courses, I’m just not up to doing anything resembling serious blogging tonight. Anyway, via Glenn Reynolds, Stephen is going at it, and I couldn’t help notice what he said about Bubba: …just in case you thought I hadn’t noticed,…