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 30, 2014

An Important Footnote

In my post yesterday I said something which needs completion and it's an important enough addition that I'm putting it in a separate...

Friday, August 29, 2014

2. What Would A Predecessor of Consciousness Be and How Would It Be Subject To Natural Selection?

I t is tempting to go into E. O. Wilson's very brief promotion of the work of the two "neurophilosophers" Patricia Churchland...

Thursday, August 28, 2014

E.O. Wilson Against Free Will: 1. To a Myrmecologist Everything Is Ants

I have read the essay, " On Free Will and how the brain is like a colony of ants ," by E.O Wilson, which appears in this months...

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Life Is Good So Is Thinking So Is Thinking It Through

I am a bit behind in answering my hate mail/hate comments. It's one of the benefits of getting hate messages, you don't feel an ob...

Monday, August 25, 2014

More Problems

I'm going to have to have a real computer person try to fix this thing so I might or might not be posting for the next few days. It...

Thursday, August 21, 2014

The Play Left Invades Ferguson

T his article on Mother Jones , yesterday, lists some of the outside groups who have shown up in Ferguson, Missouri, some helpful, some grot...

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

About The Murder of James Foley, Reporter

T here is something terrible and strange about having even an indirect connection to someone who is the victim of such a brutal and public m...

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

What Charlie Pierce Said

Intended Consequences By Charles P. Pierce 8/19/2014 AT 5:25 PM The Los Angeles Times followed some of the kids we deported back to Hondu...

Materialism Means Game Not Over Not Ever Progressing

In the quick and dirty new world of blogging with an undependable computer that I'm in, in the period since my morning break, I'...

Monday, August 18, 2014

A Summer Idyll Transcribed From Paper

I shouldn't bother reading celebrity atheists talking about their never to come-yet immanently arriving Theory of Everything, anymore. ...

Bela Bartok: Out of Doors Suite: Erzsébet Tusa: More Than Just A Musical Lesson

Part 1: With Pipes and Drums, Barcarole, Musettes Part 2: Night Music, The Chase I had never heard of Erzsébet Tusa before c...

Summer Time Blues

I'm having computer trouble and only have the one computer and a serious, serious financial situation and other troubles so my blogging ...

Saturday, August 16, 2014

The Triumph of Jerry Springer

When I first went online 12 years or so ago little did I suspect that by now the medium we so wanted to believe would revive journalism woul...

Computer's Down

Still not going great. I will try again later. This is a test.

Friday, August 15, 2014

More About Sacred Harp Singing

Here is the introduction to the series of videos recording an all-day Sacred Harp Sing. I was kind of pleased to see it also notes tha...

The Stupidity of People Who Believe They Are Brilliant A Never Ending Story

L ooking for something to write about, going to the bottom looking for material, there is an article by one of Alternet's atheist-click-...

Thursday, August 14, 2014

To Merely Remember The Holocaust Is To Deny It by Anthony McCarthy

first posted at Echidne of the Snakes February 7, 2009 F or moral obtuseness THIS Pope’s aborted rehabilitation of bishop Richard Wil...

The Putrid Campaign of Epic And Narcissistic Expropriation of Corpses or Nazi Thinking Here and Now

This is cross posted with my other blog because the brawl it started from is based there. August 14, 2014 at 6:12 AM " And let me b...

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