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

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Reader Mail - Non Hate, I Think

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No.  I don't like show tunes, in fact I hate musicals, though I think it's just great for people who do like them.  The only thing I...

The Two-Faced Profession of Journalism In The Face of Death

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I have never, ever gotten the theory that because someone dies we're supposed to make believe they suddenly possessed a nobility that t...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Many Of Those Outraged About The Murders At Charlie Hebdo Would Not Care If The Dead Were Muslims In A Muslim Country

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See update below T he murders of the staff of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo are the big news of the day.   The murders, in P...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

American Democracy

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Notes on This Mornings Post.

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W hen I began this post I typed that the basic facts around the Sullivan decision were ironic in view of the result it has produced.  But I ...
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Truth Is The Oxygen of Democracy, Lies Are Carbon Monoxide To It, Suffocating As They Are Breathed In

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T o continue from yesterday, one of the things we learn from the fifty years after the Sullivan ruling was that the truth, indeed, is what w...
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Monday, January 5, 2015

Webloids: Westbrook Pegler as a Model of the "New Media"

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If no one has called Alternet, Salon, etc. "webloids" before, someone should have.   Sleazy and with a business model of attract...

Arthur Berger Chamber Music for 13 Players

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1. Variations 2. Fantasy   The Boston Modern Orchestra Project Gil Rose conductor The album this is on is great and worth having. Th...

Let Me Guess, A Book Deal And Paid Gigs on the Atheist Lecture Circuit To Follow

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Pastor Who Spent A Year Living Without God No Longer Believes Well I can top that, I spent more than a decade as an agnostic who didn'...
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Sunday, January 4, 2015

About The People Who Keep Doing The Same Thing And Insisting That The Next Time Things Will Be Different

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I t is five days after new years, days away from the Republican-fascist take over the entire Congress, they have the Supreme Court and I ...
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Saturday, January 3, 2015

Charles Mingus - Fables of Faubus

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Charles Mingus -bass, vocals Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone Ted Curson -trumpet Dannie Richmond - drums, vocals It's amazing how bi...

Jr. High School for Scandal

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I would quite happily not mention Duncan Black, who never writes anything worth mentioning , anymore, or the chat room he hosts, a collecti...
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Friday, January 2, 2015

Just The Right Sponsor For Baby Blue

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Duncan Black hosts an accusation that I support the lynching of gay men.

Anita O'Day - Lullaby of the Leaves Mary Lou Williams Don Byas Lullaby of the Leaves

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I wouldn't be surprised if M.L.W. did the arrangement, it's good enough to be one of hers.   I can't find the band listed...

Mary Lou Williams - Cloudy

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Clearly much of the same material as in her song, What's Your Story Morning Glory. Anita O'Day - What's Your Story Morning ...

Hate Mail File - Soused and Diss Pissed

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Your "threat of a lawsuit" is so ham-handedly and obviously NOT drafted by a lawyer, one who was not in the throes of terminal sta...
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Hate On The "Left" Today: Alternet Belongs On The Southern Poverty Law Centers' List of Hate Groups See Important Update

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O ne thing I've decided to do this year is continue to point out that such venues of the pseudo-left as Alternet are vehicles of hate ju...
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Duke Ellington - Jump for Joy - Ray Nance

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My theme for the year.  I think we're going to need it.
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Mario Cuomo - Untried Potential

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M ario Cuomo is dead, a man I liked and agreed with about most things but who drove me up the wall with his indecision about whether or not ...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

It Makes No Difference If It's Cool Or Not

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