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, March 26, 2016

Easter Proclamation from the Easter Vigil Sung by Deacon Matthew Stehling

Signatures of Blind People

I went looking for examples of the signatures of people who had long been blind and found some interesting things. For example, these dated...

Last Hate Mail Call

Ah, well, you see, I had an insight yesterday that instead of being the object of a troll, what I am is the obsession of a stalker. Steve t...

The Unlearned Lesson of 2010 And What The Bernie Sanders Campaign Really Means

T here should be a rule of thumb in American presidential politics that says a state which holds a caucus tells you nothing about the mood o...

Friday, March 25, 2016

Odd Tricks Of The Mind

Noticed a while back that I cannot help thinking of Halocynthia papillosa when I see a photo of Ted Cruz. Now it's whenever I h...

Good Friday - The Cross And The Lynching Tree - Given At The Methodist General Convention 2012

Hate Mail - So You Think It's Springtime For Bernie?

If liberals weren't doing something wrong we would be only slightly worried about the house and senate flipping to Republican control an...

An Informed People Can Govern Themselves A Misinformed People Will Be Governed By Those Misinforming Them

A nother story on NPR's morning edition was an interview with Justin Barasky of Priorities U.S.A. talking about how the Republicans didn...

Repeating Is Not Reporting

I hadn't intended to write about this again, so soon and I don't know if it's part of the Stratford industry propaganda push whi...

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Orlando di Lasso - Lamentations of Jeremiah

Ensemble Vocal Européen Dominique Verkinderen, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Gundula Anders　sopranos Vincent Darras, Betty van den Berghe, Kaï...

William Bolcom - Holy Thursday from Songs of Innocence and Experience

University of Michigan Chamber Choir Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces clean The children walking two & two in red ...

No idea what's up with the 2-tone background. I didn't change anything on the template and I can't see any difference in the se...

The Left That Results In The Worst Is The Left We Need To Leave Behind

At this point in the nomination process the Bernie Sanders campaign has passed from being a challenge to Hillary Clinton to remember the mos...

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

It Matters That People Who Have Been To School Come Out Believing Myth Is Reality

T he fine and rigorous scholar Diana Price's article on the issues of the "Hand D" section of Thomas More was published last ...

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Script Post-Post Script

M y thanks to Rick Allen for a link to the arguments the Stratford-Shaksper industry has used to assert that the "Hand D" section...

Atheism Is A Good Fit With Those Who Hate The Poor They Just Haven't Figured That Out Yet

There I said it. Samantha Bee's channel has this video up.

The Left Will Die If It Refuses To Be Realistic About The Need For Security And Intelligence

T he reports on the attacks in Brussels are coming in with people saying that Belgium is considered weak on security and intelligence and wa...

Monday, March 21, 2016

Script Postscript

I showed a blown up color print out of the "hand D" page from the Thomas More manuscript and a blow up of the six signatures and s...

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Hate Mail

Oh, yeah, this topic is so much less fun than hanging around Duncan's heaping hatred on Hillary and whining and crying because she's...

Hate Mail - I Guess You'd Say Mark Twain Was A Class Snob Too

O h, no. You're making the wrong assertion. I didn't assert that it's impossible, that someone who grows up in modest conditi...

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