Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In a discussion of neighborhood crime earlier today, an intellectual with a Ph.D. argued that crimes committed by “bored” kids are not as serious as the same crimes committed by “real” criminals. I replied that I am more troubled by crimes committed for their entertainment value than those grounded in more typical criminal motives (such as…

Bastards. No really. These people are sick beyond measure. Here’s a picture showing what Isis did recently. I think all of that stuff should have been crated up years ago and sent to the British Museum. But no! It’s considered the “cultural property” of psychopathic crackpots who can destroy it. What a pity. We’re talking…

Calling it “SPYING AND LYING,” Glenn Reynolds links an article that really ought to shock more people. The unconstitutional DEA has virtually unlimited access to all of our telephone records, and agents are taught to routinely lie about where they got them. Shortly after the Snowden leaks began exposing the NSA’s massive collection efforts, the New…

In a growing and very ominous trend, what used to be considered normal, innocuous behavior is being treated as crime. A mother in Bristol, Connecticut, was charged with leaving a child unsupervised in a car Wednesday. How old was the helpless tyke? Eleven. Why was she in the car? She asked her mom if she could stay there. Was…

This is funny:

Reason Magazine is discussing the problems marijuana businesses in Colorado are having paying taxes. In order to pay the taxes properly the businesses would have to break quite a few Federal laws. A commenter explains the clause in the Constitution that covers both pot prohibition and the behavior of the IRS. WTF 7.11.14 @ 2:43PM…

From the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol.

Scanners used to track shipments of goods all over the planet are infected with Chinese malware. Here are some of the things it does. The scanned data (origin, destination, contents, value, to, from, etc.) was copied and sent out to an established comprehensive command and control connection (CnC) to a Chinese botnet that was terminated…

In the beginning of the video he follows the money and explains why we have a parrot brigade singing CO2 doom.

You can watch a more recent appearance of Chris in Las Vegas (the Monkton stuff begins at 32 minutes into the video): Christopher Monckton at Las Vegas Chris is highly entertaining. If he wasn’t into other things he could be a Las Vegas act.

What if the Green Movement is not saving the planet but enslaving humanity? You can get the movie Blue from Amazon.

The above chart which shows that volcanic activity increases during cool periods in Earth’s climate was something I first saw around 2007. I got the graph from “Ice Age Now” where a commenter had this to say: as a sound engineer, i notice the oscilations of these cycles, or waves….notice how they come closer togheter,…

I came across a comment which says Piers Corbyn 7 July 2014: “There is no observational evidence in the real world of real data in the real atmosphere and real ocean of their deluded claim that CO2 changes drive temperature changes.” and went looking for the source of that comment. It is not in text…

If more education is better, then the higher you go, the more money you make! Right? Um, not quite: 36,000 new PhDs each year, and only around 3,000 new positions created. Nothing new or surprising there. What is called “academia” is not dominated by academicians, but by bueaucrats who raise the cost of what is called “higher education”…

I didn’t, but I do now. …the NSA tracks all connections to a server that hosts part of an anonymous email service at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It also records details about visits to a popular internet journal for Linux operating system users called “the Linux Journal…

I was reading about a recent endocannabinoid conference and came across this interesting bit: What is clear from these presentations is that FDA model of approving drugs is simply unfit to manage the science that is coming. The conventional concept of one drug targeting one receptor is all that model can approve. The Pharma industry…

It’s an amusing analogy, except I see a problem. An assumption is being made that the alarmists’ arguments are in any way susceptible to rational debate. Even if the data reveal cooling, the alarmists will still call it warming, or “climate change” and say it proves they were right. This will be dismissed by them…

Another day, another megalomaniac doing everything in his power to tell people what to do: James Cameron and wife to launch campaign advocating sustainable plant-only based diet Film director James Cameron and his wife, Suzy Amis Cameron, an actor and model, are planning a global campaign to persuade people to move towards a plant-only diet…

I had a lady whose site I will not mention ask me to promote her site since she was doing a fundraiser for Multiple Sclerosis (MS). I asked her if she had anything on MS and cannabis. She directed me to that part of her site and I took a look. Then I replied to…