Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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EMINEM SHOWS CLEAN PAIR OF.. ..HEELS!
WE’VE heard about bum raps, but would the real Slim Shady please cover himself up. Foul-mouthed US hip-hopper Eminem bared all on a recent midnight run in Los Angeles wearing nothing but his socks and trainers. So why was Em, who turns 32 on Friday, letting it all hang out?
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RSS Feeds
I appear to have RSS feeds back working, though I still seem to be getting some kind of UTF-8/ASCII error in Sharpreader. The RSS, RSS2, and Atom feeds are all working fine in Feeddemon. Now I have to try and get the MT redirects up and running.
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We still don’t get it: Mark Steyn
He is at it again. Reading the latest article I have one question to ask that seems to stand out in his line of reasoning. Well actually I have a few questions. Overall, this latest article is about Islam, and Islamo-fascism. He believes that the war on terror is in essence, not a war on…
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Iran tensions
Events in Iran will come to the fore this week, but already some big news from the country. The IAEA will meet tomorrow to discuss the situation in Iran. It is reported that Iran has announced it plans to start processing 37 tons of uranium yellowcake, Western intelligence officials have estimated that amount of the…
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Jack Straw on Iran
Just came across this interview from July, with the UK Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw. He makes some curious points. Well Israel, India and Pakistan are not signatories to the Non Proliferation Treaty. We want and very powerfully committed to a nuclear free Middle East but that has to happen in order. We now have a…
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The next big international story?
Iran has popped up now and then on this blog over the last number of weeks. I had indicated that the situation looks set to worsen, and if one were to read between the lines, it seems that in the run up the US elections, Iran will figure prominently. It looks like it might turn…
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Sept. 11 and Beslan: a battle for civilization
Victor Erofeyev sounds alot like John Waters in the Irish Times last week, and Mark Steyn in the Spectator last Thursday. Where does Basayev end and Al Qaeda begin? A separatist and a fundamentalist are two very different things. The first demands political separation; the second declares holy war against us. But the separatist Basayev…
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There is no such thing as a war on terrorism: Javier Marías
Javier Marías is the author of “Dark Back of Time.”, and makes an interesting argument right at the end of the piece, I am inclined to agree with him. Here in Spain, we don’t feel as if we are at war because we aren’t. And neither are the inhabitants of the United States, however vociferously…
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Expats bask in Dubai's boom
Another article on Dubai, the “rising star” of the Middle East. A good article too, I see the hack in question had pints down in the Irish Village in Garhoud. The property markey in Dubai is booming, but I would always be sceptical about buying property in a kingdom with no real property rights, and…
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As journalists die, the government looks away
In the Philippines, journalists are working in one of the most dangerous environments in the world: Philippine journalists are dropping like flies, and the authorities are blaming the victims for their own violent deaths. Four journalists murdered between July 31 and Aug. 12 brought to 55 the number killed since 1986. Astoundingly, not one of…
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