Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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De Botton on everything being ok
I also rather enjoy mocking the modern spirit of optimism. We’re often told that the best way to make someone feel good about their life is to tell them something cheerful. I’m more attracted to an alternative line, which is to argue that people are most cheered up by despairing thoughts about life. If you’re…
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De Botton on productivity versus lunch breaks
When you think of a productive economy you’re thinking of an anxious economy. You’re looking at many, many people who are afraid about hanging on to their places. You can either lead a simple lifethe Jeffersonian ideal of the independent farmer with his simple log cabin. Or you can lead a city life. It’s your…
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D12 might plan two movies
D12 are planning two movies, according to press reports: http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=113081432&p=yy3x8zy38
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Her love for Eminem's music has banned her from the UK
Her love for Eminems music has cost her a ban from England and Wales. Sharon Mc Loughlin used to play Eminems « Stan » at a loud level:
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Nixon on the Irish
In this months Atlantic monthly some interesting exerpts from the latest tranche of Nixon tapes released this year. This is what Nixon had to say about the Irish, after Bloody Sunday, and just after the British Embassy in Dublin was burned down on February 2, 1972. Speaking to William Rogers (Secretary of State) ‘Cause you…
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Promatic album review
Let the dynamic Detroit duo Proof and Dogmatic introduce you into their crazy world. Journey through the streets of Detroit: mushrooms, hoes, lesbians and alcohol are part of your dangerous virtual trip to the 313. Promatic is the example of a successful collaboration between two gifted emcees. Dogmatic, who is still underground, gives a particular…
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Bill O'Reilly versus Michael Moore
I managed to miss this earlier, but here is the transcript. You can watch it on video too if you click the video link.
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New blogs
Always nice to see a blog that was started about the same time as my own, and looks pretty much the same. Stefan Geen’s blog is an interesting read.
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Is Mark Steyn a girlie-man?
Mark Steyn concludes his latest article in the Spectator with the following: The President has to be a terminator: he has to terminate regimes and structures that support Islamist terrorism. And, if every bigshot associated with the cause winds up like Uday and Qusay, the ideology will become a lot less fashionable. All these girlie-man…
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Vernon Blake
Vernon Blake got the sack, apparently for doing his job. He was pissed off with his boss always playing solitaire and not doing any work. So he installed win-spy, software that secretly takes screenshots of users activity. Low and behold his boss was playing solitaire all the time – so Blake went to management and…
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