The Thought Criminal

"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it." Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010 LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE

Saturday, January 27, 2018

"Cooky" Is The New Mop Heads

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Saturday Night Radio Drama - Peter Whalley - The Missing Wife

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A psychological thriller, set in the suburbs of Manchester. When Mark's wife goes missing he thinks she will return. Just why has De...

Roger Helou Organetto Virtuoso

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Back when I was in college, in the middle ages of speculative medieval music performance practice, being a piano major who had taken some le...

The Failure To Acknowledge There Are Two "Freedoms" One Great The Other Disastrous Is Dangerous Eventually Fatal

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I don't think we can safely talk about "freedom" without being more careful about what we mean.  I think there is an inescapab...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Oliver Nelson Septet - Stolen Moments

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Freddie Hubbard (trumpet) Eric Dolphy (alto sax, flute) Oliver Nelson (tenor sax, arrange) George Barrow (baritone saxophone) Bill E...

Even The Genuinely Great Charles Pierce Won't Tell You How Bad It Is But I Will

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A s almost always, Charles Pierce tells the hard truth in the piece he posted yesterday about the origins of Trumpism in the Republican Par...

There Is Nothing So Obviously Untrue Or Even Absurd As An Accusation Against Religion That Even Academics Need Fear Saying It

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I 'm sick as a frickin' dog.  As the saying goes.  I'm going to post a bit more of Marilynne Robinson's essay,  The Fate of ...
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Thursday, January 25, 2018

Notice

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Had an appointment this morning, I will post something later this afternoon.  Probably calling for Paul Ryan and Devin Nunes to be investiga...

Nub-o Thub-ank Yub-u

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I've started to answer any phone call that I suspect is made by one of those bots that mimic a human being in ubbi-dubbi.  It's amaz...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Wednesday Night Radio Drama - Lucy Catherine - Mablethorpe

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Alison, with her life ahead of her, wants to discover the past, while Mrs Gawkrodger, too old even to plant her window box, thinks only ...

#MeToo Needs To Do Some Hard Thinking About The Causes Of The Problem Without Changing Those Nothing Will Come Of This

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I f you want more detail about why #MeToo is in danger of imploding because the problem it addresses is ill defined and the general lack of ...
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The choice between cynicism and exhaustion is not an inviting one because both are forms of death.

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I have pointed out before that the book, The Bible Makes Sense was written by Walter Brueggemann about forty years ago, when Jimmy Carter wa...

How Much Is The Big Davos Junket Costing Us?

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Are all of the dozens of Trump crime family members (and spouses?) going to Davos going to cost us the $70,000 admissions fee?  And that...

Investigate Nunes

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Devin Nunes should certainly be under investigation for an attempt to obstruct justice over his antics of the past year.  His position in th...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Someone Tells Me I Should Title All My Pieces Because They're Easier To Find That Way

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I am more and more convinced that the actions of Devin Nunes in his bizarre series of wild cover up stunts isn't trying to cover up for ...
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Hate Mail

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O f course I oppose the teaching of intelligent design in public high school biology classes in exactly the same way that I oppose the teach...
Monday, January 22, 2018

Constant Complaining From The Constantly Consternated

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I hate to point it out but if there's one thing I learned from years as a regular at a few blog with established blog communities, if wh...
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Ayn Rand - How Is This Still A Thing? - Something To Think About As You Watch The Republican Politicians Make Speeches Today

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I can say that this video contains the most comprehensive and spot on definition of "Objectivism" that could possibly exist in ...

Gary Burton - Ralph Towner - Matchbook

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Some Other Time  I will confess that this is probably the only song by Leonard Bernstein I actually like, written in the period whe...

Last Hate Mail I'm Answering On The Fate of Ideas:Moses

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O h, dear, I thought I'd answered that last night.   Haven't you gotten the clue yet that when Marilynne Robinson writes an essay li...
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