Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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miss moody
good: i’m glad *somebody’s* having a good day around here — the air is close — and grimy — my alpacas look like refugees — like i don’t care about them :o(…
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Words & Their Origins: #1
Warning: this short ramble includes numerous repetitions of the F word. You may not be old enough for it. The elderly blind gentleman I read to on Tuesday afternoons mused aloud yesterday about where the word “fuck” comes from.
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Spirit Animals
Originally posted on My Life Among the Eukaryotes, on March 24, 2015. Four years ago next week, my dad died. People often die this time of year. People who hung on all winter, creaking through the holidays and dragging themselves out to the easy chair for a spot of TV, just give up. It’s a…
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Super Tuesday 2.0
It’s March 15, 2016. Primaries today in 4 or 5 dozen states. The “big” ones: Florida, Ohio, Illinois. Mainscream media trumpets this “day of decision” as the one where, at the end, we “all know” how “this thing” is “going to play out.” Really? I thought we had that day already.
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Jane Sanders for First Lady
The Florida primary is next week, and her spouse is drawing ginormous crowds there. We are even starting to see pictures of these crowds on TV. Finally, Big Media seriously entertain the thought that Bernie Sanders’ campaign for a political revolution has grown some legs. Now, inevitably, the searchlight swings Jane Sanders’ way. America and its punditry will begin…
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Carpetbaggers for President
Old Bernie Sanders is quite a rig. He is by miles the most exhilarating presidential uppity-comer, our Bernie – he’s the Real Deal. A real Democrat-Plus: that is to say, not just your basic Democrat — no, Bernie is the deluxe model: he’s an Independent. Democratic. Socialist. Fully loaded. The “real” Democrats, though, are giving him an awful hard time for…
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Never Say No
I like improv because the first rule is: Never say no. You can say “Know” or “Noh” even “Gno.” But you can’t say “No.” You have to rise to the moment. You can’t whine about it. You can’t bargain over participating. You have to meet the moment wherever it finds you. Because — hello? — now it’s your…
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Swim
Goodness I love to swim. I love slipping through water that is the same temperature as my skin. I love the way a cupped handful of water resists being pushed out of the way. I love the way my body feels, stretched all the way out, rolling in a rhythm, and weightless. I especially like that my…
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Gravity: Not Just “A Good Idea”
The gravity waves that rolled through our area last September finally — finally! — bulled their way up through the primary season fizz-over and into the news this week. These waves were generated a long time ago when two black holes collided. They turned up on CNN because they comprise the first direct evidence of rippling space/time as predicted by…
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This Year’s Obligatory North-Country-Sure-Is-Cold Post
I have a house thermometer, but it’s a cheap one. It only goes down to zero degrees. I also have a good, Northeast Kingdom thermometer that goes down to minus 60, but that one’s nailed to the outside wall of my milk house, a good hundred yards away across my dooryard and the paved road. Entirely…
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