Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Itchy and Scratchy had better watch out
Taken from CNN.
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Gah
Blog fatigue strikes. A significant amount of people coming in looking for Danish cartoons made the server fall over yesterday, some interesting comments there. The samples I posted on Flickr have been viewed 2,500 times in two days.
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Bolton Watch
Steve Clemons has launched Bolton Watch over at TPM Cafe. It should be good. Steve talks about a story that gives you some indication of the style of Bolton over on his own blog: When he arrived at the UN, one of the first meetings he had with other Security Council principals had him stepping…
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Podcast numero deaux
Richard has posted the most recent podcast – it did suffer some teething problems, but hopefully they will get ironed out with time. It featured Richard, myself, Killian Forde and Constantin Gurdgiev. You can download it here.
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Images and pictures of Mohammed, historical
Michelle Malkin linked to images of Mohammed, the notion that any images of Mohammed are forbidden in Islam seems odd to me, but then I’m not religious myself. What I had not realised is that this story has been brewing since October. That this is the case lends more weight to an argument that the…
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Priceless MacGyver
Yes it’s good marketing, and yes it’s a funny advert.
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Vote in Irish Blog Awards
The voting begins, go there now and vote!
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Question
I wondered if directly showing the cartoons on here, for the purposes of debate, and in order to see what all the fuss is about, would be a directly offensive exercise to Islamic people? Or does one wait a few months until the furore has died down? I am getting a spike in visitor activity…
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Leo Strauss and the origins of Neo-Conservatism
I have been looking into the philosophy of Leo Strauss in more depth recently, and found the first episode of the BBC series, ‘The Power of Nightmares’ (60mins) quite helpful. It is worth a look. Some interesting stuff in there about the early days of Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. This is related to a…
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Soso Dzhugashvili
Amongst people that I have met from the former Soviet Union, most especially those from Georgia, Stalin is a figure that is applauded in Soviet history. I have had very interesting conversations with Georgians about the legacy of Stalin, and most say that what Russia needs now is another ‘man of steel’, to bring the…
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