Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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McCreevy and AIB
All my Irish readers will be aware of the recent scandal involving our beloved bank AIB. In short they ‘mistakenly’ overcharged foreign exhange transaction customers by 100%. Yes you read it right, instead of the agreed 0.5%, they instead charged 1.0%. Accidentally. For a decade. They also had to check that they were charging the…
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Is Kevin Myers making sense?
Kevin Myers is a man I have read on and off for a number of years now. Reading him today I am increasingly of the belief that he is losing the run of himself. September 11 marked a turning point in his writing, he recently disagreed with Mark Steyn, and was accused of losing his…
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Sarin, Hewitt and Yglesias
Hugh Hewitt and Matthew Yglesias had a bit of an argument over the sarin round used in Iraq last week. The story is covered by Kevin Drum. I came across a relevant piece at New Scientist. Debora MacKenzie writes about the long term effects of sarin, saying: Proof that some of Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons…
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EMINEM HOSTS HIP-HOP SUMMIT: The real Slim Shady will host for Detroit
Eminem will be in charge of moderating something? What is the world coming to? He needs to go and hug his mama.
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It's a shame: those people have been tortured on Eminem's music
I would never have imagined not even in my worst dreams- that the music that pleases my ear could be used as a torture.
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Noam Chomsky on BBC Newsnight
Chomsky is, to say the least, a controversial figure in the blogosphere. I have read so many criticisms of Chomsky, many very eloquent, I have become very wary of his ideas. I have read many of his books, but to be honest so many of them repeat what previous books say, I will probably never…
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Robert Fisk, Eamonn Dunphy, Tom Cooney on TV3's Agenda
Readers may remember this story from last month. Fisk had a quite a tantrum on Irish television. Blog-Irish has the link to the video that some of my readers were looking for . You can watch the video here (7Mb MPEG)- it has to be one of the funniest pieces of television so far this…
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Eminem's criminal records
If Eminem could go back to 2000, he would probably like to erase June the 3rd from the calender.
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Eminem Gets OK To Bite Apple
A Detroit federal judge has ruled that Eminem’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Apple Computer for their unauthorized use of “Lose Yourself” can proceed: http://www.sohh.com/thewire/read.php?contentID=5852
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A classic Fianna Fail scheme: Fintan O'Toole
Fintan is in top form (sub. req.) in today’s Irish Times. I agree with him, the sheer scale and cost of decentralisation is to say the least, ill-considered. But this is coming from an incompetent Fianna Fail/PD coalition, who seem incapable of doing just about anything without making a balls of it. Fintan muses: What…
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