Saturday, June 7, 2014

I'm Exhausted

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Two days of planting corn, sorghum, sunflowers and I've still got loads of work to do in the garden.   It's a really big garden, it ...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

Great Answer

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Everything in this interview with Marilynne Robinson is worth reading, this quote is especially worth remembering. INTERVIEWER In your ...
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Solemn Music For A Solemn Remembrance Aaron Copland: Nonet For Strings (orchestral version)

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An Even Bigger Irony FOX "News" Unwittingly

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lends support to Neil Degrasse Tyson's speculation about aliens not recognizing human intelligence by having on the racist, sexist, idio...
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Thursday, June 5, 2014

How is This For Irony

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It seems that Neil Degrasse Tyson, aka The Greatest Genius In The World ® is speculating that maybe aliens have already been here and didn...
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Scrupulous Fairness in Service To Oligarchy: The Process Liberal

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I'm planting a lot of beans and corn this year and that's what I'm doing the next several days.  And I'm trying sorghum too....

Is That What's Troublin' you, Bunky? I Get Hate Mail

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S omeone objects to me having said that liberalism is about moral absolutes.   Well, the real thing is.  It isn't about anything else.  ...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Liberation Theology And History Are More Effective For Treating Depression Than Drugs

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T he past year was a year of sickness and death for my family and friends and, as I knew it would, the aftereffects have been debilitating. ...
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Post Liberalism Is Brain Dead And Not Liberal

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L et me put it plainly, any "left" in which anyone has to pretend to think that Kathy Acker was anything but a completely selfish ...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Is Science Really Real? We Don't Have The Key To Omniscience

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T his recent Huffington Post article,   Science and Reality - Is Science Really Real? by Tony Sobrado,  doesn't seem to have attracted ...
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Monday, June 2, 2014

Do Not Do This

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When you are at your dentist and he has put wadding in your mouth, as he is waiting for the Novocaine to kick in, chatting about gardening w...
Sunday, June 1, 2014

The Musical Limits of Technology

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I use the Finale music program to arrange, write and, on rare occasions, play music, it makes a lot of things so much easier and so much f...
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Ehrenreich Redux

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S everal weeks ago I wrote a post about the reaction to Barbara Ehrenreich's new book and her coming out as an atheist who, nevertheles...
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Saturday, May 31, 2014

"The Gospel Is Radical" Noam Chomsky J.S. Bach Magnificat Deposuit Potentes

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He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly.   Luke 1:52 Show me the radical revolution that has ...
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"They Lie Like That" And Today in Post-Literacy An Answer to a self-contradicting claim

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Y our use of the late, great Maya Angelou for your assertions about the virtues of prostitution are refuted by your own link.   Here, I'...

A Question I Can't Find An Answer To

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Considering her crowing about the possible exposure of Somaly Mam falsifying her personal history, there seems to be very little to no actua...
Friday, May 30, 2014

You can sell anything with sex in the United States except responsibility and life. A Specimen Of Ignorance of the Champions of Sciency Stuff

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See major Update below   A s loathe as I am to pay attention to hecklers, I found this in comment moderation this morning. This is great...
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

To The Memory of Maya Angelou, A Poem by Gwendolyn Brooks

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One wants a teller in a time like this One's not a man, one's not a woman grown To bear enormous business all alone. One cannot...

Afterword on Yesterday's Post (Posted a Day Late)

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Note:  This was intended to be posted yesterday but my internet was out. A few weeks ago, when Monica Lewinsky's reemergence into the...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Charles Ives The Housatonic at Stockbridge Poem by Robert Underwood Johnson

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The Housatonic at Stockbridge Contented river in thy dreamy realm The cloudy willow and the plumy elm: Thou beautiful! from ev'ry...