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, February 28, 2015

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CPAC is wall to wall: "Do unto others as you'd never want them to do unto you."  "Nuke your enemies and pray that the...
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we wish to be just as it pleased our Creator to have made us, and no avaricious and unmerciful wretches, have any business to make slaves of or hold us in slavery

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I t has been typical up till now to see a white face on the abolitionist movement, as if those held in slavery and who were in danger of be...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Lost World: I Love Clifford Simak's Humane Science Fiction

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I recommend the Simak story , A Death In The House on page 84.  Humane science fiction.  Having old magazines from my childhood online r...

Hate Mail File

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Apparently it's forbidden to point out that 83 year old men who are really sick sometimes die, especially when they have a terminal illn...
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Leonard Nimoy's Mameloshn: A Yiddish Story

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Good Lord, He was 83 And Suffering With COPD

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Oh, I have a feeling Leonard Nimoy is doing just fine in the afterlife.  It's pretty funny that people don't realize he was very ser...
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Our Radical Past Buried Alive - The Great Lane Theological Seminary Debates On Abolition

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I t is one of the worst parts of the collective, received amnesia Americans have about our real radical history that so little is known a...

The Genealogy of Neo-Liberalism

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T he line leading from the lunatic anarchism of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman back to Friedrich Nietzsche led to me reading through som...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 83 - Sviatoslav Richter

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Prokofiev had Richter play the premier of this piece.   There's a widespread claim that he learned it in four days.  Richter's su...

Emma Goldman Suffers So Much When Read In The Original

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I have pointed out before what a radical opportunity the internet has been for people to read the actual, unedited, unselected, unmitigaged...

The Soul Stirrers Feat. R.H. Harris - Feel Like My Time Ain't Long

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Hate Mail File - The Rubbish Heap of History

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" you take after your grandfather, Joe McCarthy" O h, how clever, you watch American Experience on PBS, or something and know th...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Jindrich Feld - Four Pieces For Flute Alone - Fenwick Smith

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Great flute player, the best.

Prokofiev Flute Sonata: Emmanuel Pahud/Stephen Kovacevich

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First Movement Second Movement Third Movement Fourth Movement   The only comparable performance I've ever heard of this was by t...

The Street That Wasn't There by Clifford D. Simak

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A scary story to listen to on a longish late winter evening.

Jürgen Habermas Gives Neo-Atheists A Headache

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S everal years ago there was a minor kerfuffle on some of the upper mid-brow atheist websites over a widely spread misquotation by the Germ...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Because Someone Wanted To Get Into A Fight Over The Hawking Movie That's Out Right Now

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In this very brief history of modern cosmological physics, the laws of quantum and relativistic physics represent things to be wondered at b...
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Salon, Alternet Style Hate Talk Promotes Facism: Your Provocative Idea for Tuesday

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S alon's Jeffrey Tayler seems to be in some kind of competition to out-hate the other atheist hate-talkers who regularly appear there.  ...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

James Day Interviews I.F. Stone

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To back up the point that Stone was able to tell the truth because he was his own boss: Note how uncynical I.F. Stone was about th...

The 1688 Germantown Quaker Meeting Minute Against Slavery: The Earliest English Language Abolitionist Document in America

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It is significant that the earliest known document against slavery in English, in North America was written by people who spoke very l...
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