Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I knew someone would find a name for our election process for this year. ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION: the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for President, put forth by either party in the 2012 election year.

Today hundreds of websites — including Wikipedia, reddit, BoingBoing, FreePress.net and SavetheInternet.com — have gone dark. They’re protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), bills in the House and Senate that could open the door to widespread Internet censorship.1 Thousands of supporters of the open Internet will soon rally…

PARAPROSDOKIANS: (Winston Churchill loved them.) Here is the definition: "Figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently used in a humorous situation." "Where there’s a will, I want to be in it," is a type of paraprosdokian. Do not argue with an idiot. He will…

Report on first national Democracy Corps survey of 2012 This first Democracy Corps national survey of the New Year shows Republicans at risk at every level. On the ballot, Republicans are in serious danger. For the first time since the 2010 election, Democrats have taken the lead in the congressional vote and this poll shows…

Advice to an old guy . . . an absolute heart-breaker. An old guy was working out in the gym when he spotted a sweet young thing… He asked the trainer that was near-by, "What machine in here should I use to impress that sweet thing over there?" The trainer looked him up and down…

  Twinkie, Deconstructed A pop-science journey into the surprising ingredients found in dozens of common processed foods, using the Twinkie label as a guide Like most Americans, Steve Ettlinger eats processed foods. And, like most consumers, he often reads the ingredients label—without a clue as to what most of it means. So, when his young…

This is a deceptively simple philosophy that I have been working on and refining for most of my life.    I am delighted to say that I have refined down to its  essence sufficiently to share it with a select band of friends that may appreciate its elegance and simplicity.

During a visit to my doctor, I asked him, "How do you determine whether or not an older person should be put in an old age home?" "Well," he said, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the person to empty the bathtub "Oh, I understand,"…

An old man walks into the barbershop for a shave and a haircut, but he tells the barber he can’t get all his whiskers off because his cheeks are wrinkled from age. The barber gets a little wooden ball from a cup on the shelf and tells him to put it inside his cheek to…

The Darwin Awards are out! These Annual Honors are given to the persons who did the human gene pool the biggest service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way. You may recall that last year’s winner was the fellow who was killed by a Coke machine which toppled over on top of him…