Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Ed Driscoll is discussing the socialist roots of Fascism and how Communists in America followed the Soviet Party line. Ed notes a bit by Ann Coulter entitled “From meth cook to Hitler apologist.” Which prompted me to leave a comment about Republicans in America following the Communist Party Line. ============== Meth cookery is because we…

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example…

“It is depressing to think how the government has become the enemy of the people rather then it’s representative. We have our politicians to thank for that.” That is romanticizing the past. No government has ever been representative of the people. That is snake oil sold for votes. Political people – hell, people in general…

The prospect of being buried alive has long terrified people. So much so that provisions have been placed in wills requiring waiting periods, entombment in unlocked crypts, etc. Some inventor actually applied for a patent for what was called a “device for indicating life in buried persons.” The buried person simply needed to rotate a…

Well you have seen it before. It is a line of clothing. But now comes a guy who suggest the antidote to OBEY is Disobey. Government has become so oppressive, constantly restricting us with new regulations, that our only hope is for some of us to refuse to cooperate. Murray’s suggestion—laid out in By the…

A follow up to my This Guy Doesn’t Like Christianity. === On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or…

The truth is, Christianity is painfully stupid when you analyze it. God got mad at the people he created, so he knocked up a virgin to give birth to himself, and then had himself tortured and killed by the people he was mad at in order to somehow save them. Then he magically came back…

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I did a post about The Race War In America. And then I came across this post with video about the race war in Baltimore. Here is the video:    

“Look, we understood we couldn’t make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue…that we couldn’t resist it.” – John…

FWIW, I think racism sucks. Not only is racism irrational, but it is — and was — the antithesis of the ideals on which the country was founded. (Hence the Civil War, the seeds of which were sown by the founding principles and the compromises thereof.) Bad as racism is, I think that sooner or…

Of course not! Stuff like this only happens in Europe. Officials here and in Arizona stepped up their investigation into two men who opened fire with assault rifles and were shot dead by a police officer before they could invade a controversial Muhammad cartoon contest. Here we have the First Amendment, so we can say…

Kathy Kinsley reminded me we are having an anniversary today. This is for all of you who believe in the good government can do wishing to forget the evil.  

Mitt Romney slams Hillary Clinton’s call for ‘mass incarceration’ to end. In an interview with Fox News that aired Monday, the GOP former presidential candidate questioned Clinton’s recent call to end the “mass incarceration that we practice.” Clinton, the Democratic front-runner in 2016, made the comment in a wide-ranging criminal justice speech last Wednesday. “What…

Because they might do this. Craig Patty asked his employee Lawrence Chapa to help take one of his two trucks to the garage, not realizing that Chapa was a DEA undercover planning to fill the truck with weed, which ended in a firefight with a Los Zetas hit squad that killed the driver, who was…

Tesla Motors plans to announce that it has solved the biggest problem with alternative energy. Energy Storage. Elon Musk hinted about an announcement for a new product line for renewable energy storage last week, suddenly, that dream became a step closer to becoming reality. “It signals that the storage market is at a point where…

There hasn’t been any music here for a while. Here is some.     Another version recorded at Playboy. Added 3 May 2015 0553z. Yet another version.

The shooting of a black man in Detroit by federal agents is attracting more and more local attention. DETROIT, MI — Kevin Kellom of Detroit was at the Wayne County morgue Tuesday afternoon taking care of formalities. The body of 20-year-old Terrance Kellom, his son, was inside. Police are saying little about what led to…

As he was to many in my generation, Bruce Jenner was an icon in my youth. So it’s not surprising that his recent announcement — that he is a woman — has taken the Internet by storm. Obviously, the idea of a star Olympic athlete changing his sex is shocking and titillating. But if you…

An old friend came to town to visit and we had a wonderful time together. What was interesting was her change in attitude towards cannabis. She was never one of those “lock them up and throw away the key” type people. But she was one of those “stay away from that dangerous stuff” types. This…