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, April 25, 2015

Charles Ives - In the Mornin'

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Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano Gilbert Kalish, piano

"Minority" - Dan Wilson - Jared Gold - Sylvia Cuenca

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I went looking for more of Jared Gold's playing, the organist playing with Dave Stryker's quartet in the pieces posted yesterday ...

Mandy Is Mad And Mad That People Note That She's Mad

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W ish I had saved the blog comment someone made years ago, back when she was pretty much confined to Pandagon, that Amanda Marcotte wrote li...
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Friday, April 24, 2015

Telemann - Orpheus "Augelletti che cantate" - Werner Güra

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Werner Güra, Tenor Akademie für alte Musik René Jacobs From Act 3 of Oprheus Every once in a while I'm surprised to be reminded...
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"Wichita Linesman" (Jimmy Webb) ~ Dave Stryker ~ Live at The Falcon

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I heard Dave Stryker's recording of Wichita Linesman from his CD, 8-Track in which he and a slightly different set of musicians make...

Fridays With McBrien

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R eading Fr. Richard McBrien's old columns has turned out to be addictive.  He had the kind of writing style and a clarity of thinking t...
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Sarah Chayes for Secretary of State Unfortunately Will Never Happen

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U nlike most people you hear in the West who purports to explain the roots and motivations of "Islamic" fundamentalist violence, S...
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Thursday, April 23, 2015

On Very Belatedly Hearing About Richard McBrien's Passing Into Eternity

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E ven when I was at my most estranged from the Catholic Church, I made it a point to read Fr. Richard McBrien's column in my mother'...
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Recommendation of the Morning

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My friend, RMJ, wrote an interesting and better post on the theme of my post yesterday.
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Another Rule

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Do Not Try To Write Seriously While Under The Influence of Pain Killers. The doctor tried a new one on me and it was a lot worse than Tyle...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

It's A Good Day

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More in keeping with the theme of this morning's post, I think.  Or at least how it seems to me after a nap and a cup of coffee.

Peggy Lee - Fever

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This isn't my favorite Peggy Lee but it's amazing to remember back when a TV variety show could put the resources into the produc...

"It is simply not possible to act in good faith toward people one does not respect, or to entertain hopes for them that are appropriate to their gifts."

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I am aching all over this morning and need to get some sleep.  I will post something new later.   I have to confess that it was fun to turn...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Hate Mail

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I've been especially hard on dear old Bertie Russell on this blog but he did say some things which were spot on, true and a useful expla...
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Opinion Surveys On Stereotyping Are Done Through Stereotyping

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T he sciency, sociological way of looking at people hasn't, I think, been a decisive plus in modernism.   I think it actually is more li...
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Monday, April 20, 2015

The Truth Will Set You Free Its Absence Will Set You Barking

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M y morning e-mail informs me that I've been accused of thinking I'm a philosopher, which is a statement so absurd that I think only...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Final Report: Things I Learned From The Reality Community

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1.  Whereas the Civil Rights Movement could sustain the Montgomery bus boycott nearly 60 years ago, a boycott that required much sacrifice b...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015

The Rumors of My Death Are Overly Optimistic

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and the one that my surgery was a last chance face lift are off base too.  I'd need more work than ..... well, I won't say who becau...
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Plutonium Age Sci-Nerds As Modern Bronze Age Goatherds and More Marilynne Robinson

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I n my recent kerfuffle with the fans of artificial intelligence I came to see that the frequently made claim of materialists and other stil...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015

“Open Wide Thy Hand: Moses and the Origins of American Liberalism”

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I will not be able to write anything tomorrow and, perhaps not on Saturday.  So here's something better than anything I've written. ...
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