Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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My Lovely Horse
An all time classic clip from Father Ted –WMV video file. [via TCAL]
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Curious referrals
It’s always good to know that I am ranked in the top 10 in Google for the phrase you read when you click here. I hope whoever it was, in Vienna, Virginia, in the US found what they were looking for.
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Evolution in the bible, says Vatican
I think the phrase here is ‘flip-flop‘: Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said the Genesis description of how God created the universe and Darwin’s theory of evolution were “perfectly compatible” if the Bible were read correctly. His statement was a clear attack on creationist campaigners in the US, who see…
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WordPress move
The exceptional Sarah Carey has moved from Blogger to WordPress. You can now catch her over at SarahCarey.ie, update your links!
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Corruption in Ireland
A few months in and I am happy with the way Irishcorruption.com is ticking over. Thanks to an internet outage, Anthony has been unable to post this weekend, but has some stuff to post once his internet is fixed. October was the best month so far for the blog – and I am measuring growth…
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Wake up, Europe, you've a war on your hands
So says Mark Steyn in today’s Chicago Sun Times. As usual he starts by patting himself on the back Ever since 9/11, I’ve been gloomily predicting the European powder keg’s about to go up. ”By 2010 we’ll be watching burning buildings, street riots and assassinations on the news every night,” I wrote in Canada’s Western…
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Sir Christopher Meyer Critiques U.S.-U.K. Orchestration of Iraq War
Steve Clemons points to the first part in the serialisation of Sir Christopher Meyer, former British ambassador to the US. It looks like it might be explosive with regard to the Blair premiership. The Guardian has it as front page news. I liked this bit: I told him [Wolfowitz] there had to be a strategy…
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TV3 to sue major shareholder ITV
Hot off the news that ITV are now broadcasting ITV1, 2, 3 and 4 free to air in Ireland, including all regional variations on the Astra satellite, TV3 are now looking at suing ITV. …the Irish broadcaster, whose other big shareholder is the Canadian CanWest company, has hired London lawyers to argue that ITV should…
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A Caspian contradiction
Elections in Azerbaijan have led to the reinstatement of the existing leader Ilham Aliev. It appears though, that the elections were far from fair. It is what you might expect from Azerbaijan. The Economist reports: One campaign has involved decrees on electoral propriety from Ilham Aliev, Azerbaijan’s president, the open registration of candidates, plans for…
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Viral hanky-panky
Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist at Imperial College London has a piece on avian flu in today’s IHT. She notes: The influenza virus that caused the infamous Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 had only eight genes – but it brought about more than 20 million human deaths. And alas, its lethality cannot be blithely attributed…
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