Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

How hot is it? It’s so hot that … it almost makes you think of global warming. But not so much for the mainstream media. Interestingly, it turns out that the media are now giving significant coverage to global warming. Whether this is just a spike because of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, or the recent…

It’s a small thing, really. But so long as the Bush administration is going to help the super-rich out by lowering and lowering and lowering tax rates on the rich — income tax, capital gains tax and the estate tax rates — is it too much to ask the rich to actually pay those taxes?…

[posted on corp-focus, August 1, 2006] It was an uncomfortable moment. There they sat — next to each other. Dr. Steven Nissen, chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. And Dr. Scott Gottlieb, deputy commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Next to each…