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, August 27, 2022

A Republic If You Can Keep It

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MUCH AS I RESPECT the post-presidency of Jimmy Carter and even his sand-bagged presidency, in retrospect, I don't think any Democratic ...

But, of course, when rights are situated amid might and wealth something happens to rights

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"facets of having one's way in the world" IN THINKING ABOUT THE PERVERSION of the idea of rights divorced from moral responsib...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Get Liz Cheney On Record As Opposing the Unitary Executive Theory Before Beatifying Her

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ONE OF THE THINGS that Liz Cheney must be grilled on before her media canonization as a presidential candidate - who will result in splittin...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

The Goddamned Media Is Not The Friend Of Equality, Democracy Or Even The Survival Of The World

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Night Thoughts And Hate Mail

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INSOMNIA And NIGHT THOUGHTS CAN be an opportunity for serious thinking and last night it helped me do what I hadn't done while fully aw...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Camels And Needles - A Sermon By Fr. Dan Donovan

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THE MOST IMPORTANT thing I did on a computer this weekend was to transcribe a sermon that Fr. Dan Donovan gave last Tuesday on The Daily T...

The Weird Things That Are Sins In The Kulcha Of Materialist Atheistic Scientism - Yeah, More Hate Mail

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or, Skepticism The "Skeptics" Will Not Put Up With  OF COURSE I accept that the only theory of how biological diversity arose in ...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

The Irony Of Secularism Being Held As Something Sacrosanct And Above Critical Analysis - Hate Mail Wrap Up

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IF YOU'VE READ MUCH of what I've posted here, you will know that I have gone from skepticism about the so-called "enlightenmen...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Spiritual At Noon - Hazel Dixon Won't You Come And Sing For Me

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how dangerous an assertion or even a definition of rights can be unless it has an intention of rigorous pursuit of morality and good will behind it. Secularism rejects that safety measure

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WHY ARE YOU transcribing what Stanley Hauerwas is saying if you disagree with him so much, is the question.  Well, I don't disagree wit...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

In the pragmatic economic game of law and politics, of academic "ethics" there is seldom if ever a call for a generous extending of a benefit of doubt

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IT IS INEVITABLE in doing this kind of commentary on a half-hour or longer lecture that, for reasons of length,  some of the breaks taken i...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

The Elevation, Supremacy And Decay Of "Rights" And The Destruction Of The Meaning Of Words And The Defeat Of Truth

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Continuing on with Stanely Hauerwas on rights: Not that long ago one of the fundamental issues that characterized that strange activity call...
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