Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Twenty disagrees
Following his classic ‘let’s burn him on a pyre outside the Central Bank‘, Twenty suggests we throw eggs at the hearse. But he disagrees with me about the odds, arguing that everyone will forget his corrupt political donation legacy. I am sympathetic to his anger.
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Should we wait?
Richard calls the event a human one before a political one. He wonders if the week can pass off with some level of respect before the war over his legacy rages. The war has already begun on the TV and radio, and on this blog. I don’t think it is a human event before a…
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RTE/IT obituary
You have the love the conclusion: In his last Dáil address Haughey said: ‘I have always sought to act solely and exclusively in the best interests of the Irish people.’ Even allowing for his public ignominy in the interim, Charles Haughey remained unflinching and, in his own terms, undefeated. What? The Irish Times obituary meanwhile:…
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Haughey is dead
Let the revisionism begin… Odds on everyone saying Charlie was a great leader, wonderful man, rogue character, we are all like Charlie etc etc – 10-1 on How many people will bring up his attempt to bring down McCracken, decades of corruption, endemic cronyism…. 50-1 According to the Indo, Charlie had a personal say in…
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Radio kills the Internet star?
Engadget links to a story about WiMax transmitters in Sweden: According to Sweden’s SVT, which reported on the incident, the local hospital emergency room was flooded with calls regarding various symptoms such as headaches, difficulty breathing, blurry vision and even two cases of heart arrhythmia. All of this was mere hours after the base station…
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Haughey 'should not be given State funeral': Cruiser
Conor Cruise O’Brien believes Charlie Haughey should not be given a State funeral. Dr Cruise O’Brien, who turns 90 next year, dismissed suggestions that Mr Haughey had contributed to the State, and said any of the reforms he had introduced “were dictated to him”. “They were not his idea”. Is the country split on this…
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Blogroll renovation
Having not renovated my links in over a year, it was about time I had a look. Some additions: Tuppenceworth (Not sure why I wasn’t linked there already) Irish Legal Fiction (Always interested in Publicinquiry.eu) TJ McIntyre (Great stuff from TJ) Finian Murphy (Completely new to me) Midnight Court (again not sure why I hadn’t)…
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I thought I'd seen it all…
It’s always been said that there are blogs about everything, every topic under the sun they say… Probably for the first time I have come across a blog that covers a subject I had never in my wildest dreams imagined… Cats that look like Hitler
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1,000,000th visitor
1,000,000 visits! I know it doesn’t come from people who look at the latest entries, but the combined numbers of people who drop in somewhere on the blog, be it the latest entry, or the oldest one. 1423 days ago I started blogging, back when the blogosphere was a far different place. I never for…
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