Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Memories of Games and the Graveyard Shift
I’ve gotten to speak to many people about our great game so far. Once I hear that someone I’ve met happens to work the graveyard shift of their chosen career, one of the first things I advise them to do is take up bridge. Bridge is the one game that embraces the graveyard shift. My…
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Razor’s Believe It or Else!
There was an era in America, not too long ago when “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” was a national pop-culture fave-rave that rivaled even Barnum & Bailey’s Circus! In 1918 Robert Ripley began to report unique, weird and gruesome people and events – first in his newspaper cartoon feature, and since then for a full…
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Great BBO Vugraph Deals #37
Marc Smith visits the French Mixed Trials At the upcoming European Championships in Madeira, France is one of the few nations who will arrive with realistic expectations of contending in all four events. It is, perhaps, in the Seniors and the Mixed, though, that their medal chances are the highest. Nine teams were selected to…
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