Saturday, March 1, 2014

Helen Sung at Kalisz Jazz Festival: "H-Town"

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H-Town is Houston, her home town. EJ Strickland - drums Lonnie Plaxico - bass She's pretty exciting and very original. Update:...

Stuck in Vermont Salsa Social

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This looks like a fun way to spend a cold winter evening, though I'll bet the walk to the car all moist and dewy with perspiration mu...

Keeping Things in Proportion

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- Hey, it's you.  Haven't seen you since high school. - (Warily)  No. - You remember how I tripped you in the lunch line.  How ev...

Two Easy Essays by Peter Maurin

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Christianity Untried 1. Chesterton says:     "The Christian ideal     has not been tried     and found wanting. 2. It has been fo...
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Mea Culpa

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I have come to the conclusion that answering lies is a waste of time.  People who want to believe lies will believe them, people who are ind...

Back To Politics 2014 Edition

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Note: I've got to travel today.  Here's a post from last June.   T he ways that smart people think that get them into trouble has...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Peter Maurin: Feeding the Poor at a Sacrifice from Easy Essays

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1. In the first centuries     of Christianity     the hungry were fed     at a personal sacrifice,     the naked were clothed     at a ...
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Thursday, February 27, 2014

What We Need For The Human Species To Survive : An open provocation

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People need to intentionally stop being selfish to avoid total disaster, social and environmental.  That has never been more true than now w...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Why Isn't This Story Being Discussed?

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I 've been spending the past six or so hours trying to catch up with a story that I missed in December and, somehow, failed to see cover...

The Enormous Joy of Going Back To Student Pieces

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T wice before, circumstances have forced me to go back close to the beginning of music and both times have revealed richness that I'd ne...
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Bitcoin

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The first thing I ever thought about "bitcoins" is how easy it would be to steal "them".   Or it might have been, who is...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Geezers Gettin' Kewl

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Update :  Mrs. Miller (see below) wasn't anyone's fool, she knew what she did was comedy, and it could be pretty funny, often a lot ...

Answer to Thomas Frank

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T homas Frank is right in his recent Salon piece that the Paul Krugmans and Robert Reichs aren't going to save The People, that the edu...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Why It’s Just Wrong When Pop Originates Pop Culture

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A rerun, as relevant to the rage of an angry aging..... no make that very aged, would be hipster as it was seven years ago this month. I n...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Short Not Tweet

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Trippin McZoink  Anthony_McCarthy • 4 minutes ago Few are the Christians who don't violate every single thing that Jesus taught. Quite ...
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

J'accuse: The Cynical Intellectual Laziness of "Leftist" Anti-religious Click Bait

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M y internet friend RMJ recently noted something that I'd noticed but hadn't articulated to myself before, that a lot of the anti-re...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Pops Staples Nobodies Fault But Mine

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Any three of his guitar notes were worth entire albums of the pale imitation.  His music was the real thing Update:  I've posted th...

NPR Pushing the Keystone Pipeline Along with Science Magazine

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A s I am writing this Steve Inskeep is shilling for the Keystone pipeline in a big way.  NPR has been pushing it all along but the pushing i...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

The Insanity of Letting Scientists Off The Hook

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N earing the end of my toleration for things at a certain blog I used to frequent, I got into a big fight with several of the regulars, disa...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Sheila Jordan Owning Willow Weep For Me

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What a great singer, what an ageless master of jazz singing.