Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Should rap lyrics be subject to Free Speech Limitation?
I am a rap music listener and lover. To me, the answer is clearly no. I am conscious that rap lyrics usually contain a lot of references to drugs, sex, violence, etc…Many people would object that those lyrics may endanger the youth. I think parents should allow their children to listen to rap music. Rap…
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Saddam's Syrian Stash
Investigators think they’ve found some of Hussein’s loot. Since the fall of Baghdad in April, American officials have scoured the globe in search of Saddam Hussein’s legendary fortune. Now they think they have found a big chunk. According to a U.S. estimate, as much as $3 billion in Iraqi assets is sitting in Syrian government-…
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A fig leaf the United Nations won't provide
Bob Herbert from the Times has a good article in the Herald Tribune – The United States has tried again and again to get help from the United Nations as a way of legitimizing its tragic misadventure in Iraq. But the UN, which was founded in 1945 to foster international cooperation as a way of…
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A Tale of Two Fathers
Maureen Dowd with another, controversial, piece in the Times. Most notably this accusation: Mr. Cheney lumped terrorists and tyrants into one interchangeable mass, saying that Mr. Bush could not tolerate a dictator who had access to weapons of mass destruction, was allied with terrorists and was a threat to his neighbors. Sounds a lot like…
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Boo Ya Tribe speaks
BOO YAA! Thats the sound of a shotgun. Like a sneak attack, the Boo Yaa Tribe is back for the kill with a bangin new album, West Koasta Nostra. So lets go down to the outfits Santa Monica offices and catch up. Ever meet a small Samoan? The Boo Yaa tribesmen are 6-foot, 300-to-500-pound, tatted-up,…
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The Source controversy
Source becomes an origin of controversy Every month across America, more than 400,000 people go to newsstands or their mailboxes for copies of a magazine called The Source. What they find in its pages is a lively update on the fast-moving, often combative culture of hip-hop. And lately they are finding something else: Along with…
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Review of the Slim Shady LP
This album ,which was released in 1999, relates real life dramas along with fictional murdering and rape fantasies. Eminem talks about drugs, alcohol and violence. It also refers to a period where Eminem was facing a lot of financial and personal problems. The Slim Shady LP gives birth to Eminem’s alter ego who is a…
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In a day of escalating violence in Baghdad, a Spanish intelligence officer was shot to death in front of his home Thursday and a car bomber plowed into a crowd of Iraqi policemen waiting to collect their pay, killing himself and at least eight others. The bomb, which blasted a deep crater outside a police…
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Now China is sending a man into space. Why?
Few Americans are even aware that the Chinese are preparing the launching of Shenzhou V. That it is likely to occur while the U.S. shuttle fleet is grounded will magnify how the United States and the world perceive China’s technological achievement. Certainly, some in Washington will react by claiming that the launching requires the United…
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Is our universe finite?
LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists said Wednesday the universe could be spherical and patched together like a soccer ball — and it may not be infinite. Jeffrey Weeks, a MacArthur Fellow based in Canton, New York, and researchers from the University of Paris and Observatory of Paris analyzed astronomical data which suggests the universe is finite…
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