Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Man creates his dream home and upsets neighbors after painting it Pepto-Bismol pink
But what happens if after you’ve moved in your neighbor changes their house so much it becomes hard to look at? One man in an Austin, Texas suburb has come under fire for painting his house a bright Pepto-Bismol pink and it’s causing some pain among local residents. Most U.S. neighborhoods have a Homeowners Association […]
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Poor Man Gives Bus Ticket To Mom With 3 Kids, Finds Dozens of Boxes on His Doorstep Next Day — Story of the Day
An elderly pensioner meets a mother with three children at a bus stop. He makes a surprising sacrifice and receives an unexpected reward for his kindness. Donald was 79 years old, and on cold mornings he felt every one of those years. On that particular day, he planned a trip to a supermarket 30 miles […]
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Mom Posts This Online After Her Daughter Showed Up Like This
This past Saturday night my 15 year old daughter asked me to sleep at a friends house and go to the movies. I said yes. She has always been very good about communicating with me and checking in with me. But her plans changed that night and the series of events that followed are nothing […]
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Robbers Break Into Home, Shoot Grandmother; Grandson Brings The Pain
A pair of masked robbers forced their way into an elderly woman’s home, demanding money and subsequently shooting her. However, they soon came face-to-face with her 12-year-old grandson, and he wasn’t about to let them leave without a fight. It’s difficult to imagine that someone could be so harmless as to use violence against the […]
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Janitor Drops To His Knees And Cries After Coworkers Calls Him To Library
Despite having to walk miles to and from work, a beloved custodian was always smiling and bringing joy to his school. However, he dropped to his knees in tears when his coworkers called him into the library. Robert Reed would catch three buses and walk the extra miles every day just to work at the […]
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Paparazzi recently caught Goldie Hawn at her 76 with her beloved Kurt Russell during their holiday
Here is Hawn at her 76 who was criticized because of her imperfect body G. Hawn and her beloved husband have been happily married for already many years. Lately, paparazzi managed to catch the spouses during their vacation taking some new pictures of them. “Doesn’t really look good”, “Stop criticizing her”, “They are on the […]
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America’s Oldest Department Store Is Closing All Its Stores After 200 Years
Beginning with the untimely death of NBA star Kobe Bryant, 2020 quickly went off the rails with the coronavirus pandemic and the civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd. As the economy struggled to survive the downturn from the pandemic, retailers (including some that are about as old as America herself) struggled as people […]
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‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ still draws fans to movie theaters – decades after its release
The one-time lost Christmas classic “It’s A Wonderful Life” staged an unlikely comeback in the 1970s and 1980s by becoming a December TV staple, after underperforming at the box office and failing to win big at the Oscars when it debuted in the ’40s. Ubiquitous every December on the small screen, it has also become […]
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Chevy Chase, Christie Brinkley and Beverly D’Angelo enjoy ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’ reunion
The Griswold family adventures became a cult classic beginning in the ‘80s with the first “National Lampoon’s Vacation” movie. Chevy Chase, Christie Brinkley and Beverly D’Angelo reunited almost 40 years after the release of the first film as they enjoyed some downtime before hitting a comic con in Pennysylvania. “These Three Amigos are going to […]
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5-year-old gets punished by his mother for cursing, but his comeback is the kicker
From the mouths of babes… Kids say the darndest things. Sometimes they don’t even know what they’re saying, and sometimes they do. A mother was working in the kitchen, listening to her young son playing with his new electric train in the living room. She heard the train stop and her son said, “All of […]
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