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

Sunday, August 11, 2013

You Want To Know What's Really Funny?

I just read a piece about the horrible violation of personal liberty it was for the NSA to collect the records of phone calls between people...

Bedřich Smetana - Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15

Very fine and very unusual piano trio, a real masterpiece.

Notice:

I have been asked to remove comment moderation from my blog for this discussion. I will as an experiment but it will go back on if people ...

No You Can't Claim A Right To Be Irresponsible And Then Blame It On Someone Else

I had hoped to be done with the topic of PZ Myers' incredibly irresponsible post accusing Michael Shermer of serial rape but what I...

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Smetana

Bedřich Smetana Czech Dance No. 6 Dupak Rudolf Firkusny - piano

Thank You All of My Many Detractors

I just read a well-respected journalist I like who, until recently, had taken the entirely unfashionable position that Edward Snowden was i...

PZ Myers Has Become Unquestionable and Infallible To His Fans And That Has Made Him Reckless

T he temptation in the accusation of serial rape that PZ Myers made against Michael Shermer is to assume you know what happened when you hav...

Friday, August 9, 2013

An Accusation of Serial Rape Is Too Serious To Turn It Into Vent-a-thon Porn

See updates below I n one of the most stunningly irresponsible blog posts I've ever see n, PZ Myers accused Michael Shermer of serial ...

Smetana: Hulán Jan Bartoš -Piano

from Czech Dances, Series II

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of The "Reality Community"

A nyone who thinks a modern country could operate allowing what Edward Snowden did to be perfectly legal has marked themselves as hopelessly...

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Smetana - On the Sea Shore - Concert Etude in G sharp minor, Op. 17

Jitka Čechová - pianist There are so many really great pianists you'll never hear of because there are just so many and so few get...

A Few More Thinking Points For the Snowden Cult To Consider

Update response as prelude: What people were getting worked up about was that the NSA were collecting the records of communications betwee...

Magical Thinking of the Naive Left

I t used to be that it was conservatives of the strict constructionist type who held a truly superstitious view of the Constitution of the U...

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Answer to an E-mail

Well, some people figure that toodeling around and over a back beat - oh so often on a pentatonic skeleton - is improvising. But here's...

Lying on Blogs Petty and Otherwise

A lie is often a minor detail to most people except the one who the lie is told about. It's easy for other people to discount their...

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

When The "Convene A Blogger Ethics Panel" Schtick Gets Really Old and Tedious

I don't remember once calling the owner of Eschaton by his name before last weekend. Though he'd been outed, largely through his o...

You Want An Important Cause That Could Really Save Democracy in the United States ?

D e-Nazification of domestic police agencies could be a good place to start. From Digby: Taking down and killing a 95-year-old WWII vete...

Answer to an Unpublished Comment

My points in my post aren't Yeah NSA and Down with Glenn Greenwald, they are: 1. There is no such a thing as a guarantee of privacy ...

Monday, August 5, 2013

This is something I'd like to play some day. One of the wildest development sections in a sonata of that period. Smetana was a far bet...

Some Questions About Snowden Greenwald and the Myth of Online Security

1. How does Glenn Greenwald get his columns from Brazil to The Guardian? Some super-secure internet channel that he imagines no governmen...

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