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

Monday, March 30, 2015

The Curiously Dissappeared [mysteriously reappeared] Primary Evidence And Why It Really Does Matter In Real Life

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Update:  I don't know if it has anything to do with me posting this, but within an hour after I did, the link I mentioned started workin...
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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Update to This Morning's Post

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S omeone is quibbling about the textbook used by the class taught by the famous John Scopes of the "monkey trial" mentioned in the...
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"The Nazis gave it a bad name and I think it is time something was done to make it respectable again." Blatant and Dangerous Lies

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I n researching one of my short posts the other day, I came across a very good example of the ongoing dishonesty that has become habitual i...
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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Pavlov's Blogs: If They Want To Prove My Point About Atheists Not Reading Things Before Blathering I'm Powerless to Stop Them

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But I Can Get Them To Do It Why would I care about what people who can't navigate the complexity of an argument we might have gotten t...

Roger Sessions: Symphony No.4 (1958)

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Columbus Symphony Orchestra Christian Badea, director Session's 4th is one of his best.

More Fun With Feyerabend

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T hinking more about Paul Feyerabend's fascinating short essay, The Strange Case of Astrology, from his book, Science in a Free Society,...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Roger Sessions: Symphony No.3 (1957)

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Igor Buketoff, director

More Hate Mail: I've Given Scandal

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If anything I said wasn't true, point it out.   This place has the name it does for a reason, I say the forbidden, frequently and flagra...

Hate Mail: The Point I Was Making Isn't The One The "Skeptics" Are Hoping For I'm Not Pro Astrology I'm Pro Honesty

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M y post last night mentioning CSICOP's sTARBABY scandal wasn't about astrology, it was about skeptics lying about their expertise a...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Pseudo-Experts Peddling Pseudo-Expertise Online

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I t is something I'd noticed before but the practice of "skeptics" and other materialist ideologues to pretend that they have ...
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Roger Sessions: Symphony No.2 (1946)

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New York Philharmonic Dimitri Mitropolos, director It has to be significant for the difference in language and mood of Roger Sessions ...

Hate Mail: The Habit Of Jr. High Thinking Dupes Us Into A Dead End Of False Alternatives

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T he response to my criticism of the detour that the various Marxists, anarchists, etc. took the American left on for much of the past centu...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Roger Sessions - Symphony #1

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Japan Philharmonic Orchestra Akeo Watanabe, director It is grotesque that this is the only recording of this symphony, one of the real...

Why Religion Belongs In Public Life And Political Discourse: An Example

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Y esterday I reposted a piece I did on two passages in The Bible, the story of Susanna and the Elders in the Book of Daniel and the story of...

What Information and The Only Reason That Is Really Important

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I t is impossible to disagree with the recycled, seven year old item originally posted at TomDispatch , up at Alternet by Rick Shenkman abou...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Susanna Again

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T his is an update on a post I did almost a year ago, I'll begin with the update.  I noted that the first reading in the mass that day (...
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