Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • South County Dublin Development Plan

    Developers in bid to push ahead with rezoning of 280 acres in west Dublin Screamed the headline in the Sunday Tribune a few weeks back. It reminded me of some of the headlines that surrounded rezonings back in the early 1990s. As it turns out, it is not that far removed. The article says: Although…

  • Colbert and Dan Maffei

    Yet another Colbert classic:

  • Obama on exceptionalism

    James Fallows praises Obama here. At the same conference Obama referred to the language of Austria as “Austrian”. Ouch. It didn’t look like a “casualism” either. I was watching Hannity earlier and he managed to equate Obama’s reference to Greece with present-day Greece. But Obama clearly didn’t choose Greece in its present-day form, but rather…

  • Ansbacher account holders

    Just for the record: Category A: List of persons who beneficially owned funds in Ansbacher 281 Category B: List of persons who were clients of Ansbacher through College Trustees Category C: List of persons who were clients of Ansbacher through Jack Stakelum Category D: List of persons whose sole involvement was the establishment of Ansbacher…

  • Brian Cowen pre-Budget

  • Michael Fingleton

    I’ve been stewing over Mr Fingleton for some time now, and the page one stories on the Irish Times and the Sunday Independent last week only served to heighten my curiosity. There are, I think, a number of questions that need to be asked: 1. Why did Mr Fingleton get the €1m bonus, and then…

  • Colbert and newspapers

    An instant Colbert classic:

  • $1 trillion for the IMF

    A nice round figure. But where will the money come from? Gold perhaps? Discussion at a summit of G20 world leaders about selling International Monetary Fund gold to raise extra funds refers to sales over and above existing plans, a minister said on Thursday. “What’s referred to here is in addition to what has been…

  • 1-1

    Adrian writes about last night in Bari, sounds like it was a good night: Forgetting everything I was ever taught about strange men in dresses offering lifts, we hopped in and to the famed beach. “Miracles happen when you believe in saints, lads,” he mumbled as he looked out, through his Ray Bans at the…

  • Off with her head

    Anne Harris, writing on the frontpage of the Sindo today, displays a rather curious sense of outrage at the Irish Times’ page one story from Saturday. The Irish Times should be ashamed of itself. Yesterday, on the eve of their 150th anniversary, the so-called paper of record had, as its lead story, the fact that…

Got any book recommendations?