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, August 13, 2016

Busy Week, Not Much Time To Listen To Radio Plays So Here's Something Short

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I didn't get a chance to choose a radio play to post this week , I'll try to get to that in a day or so. Here's another episode ...

Reel St-Renard - Éric Gagné

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I needed that. Reel from the repertoire of Gilles Paré played by Éric Gagné at the Festival Folklorique of St-Edmond de Grantham in Aug...

Hate Mail - I Don't Do The Olympics

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I don't like the International Olympic Committee, I think it's essentially an organized criminal outfit which uses young athletes an...
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Friday, August 12, 2016

Hate Mail - I Don't Follow David Gorski aka "Orac" And Don't Much Care What He Thinks

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I will though say if I had to choose to be in the shape he is in as opposed to Michael Phelps, I'd choose the swimmer over the CSI- Scie...
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The Exchange With The Masked Boy Continues

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Bobs_Vendetta  Anthony_McCarthy • 7 hours ago OKay, I get that you will go on pretending that you are progressive, instead of being a neoli...
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Thursday, August 11, 2016

Exchange With A Dope In A V for Vendetta Mask

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Bobs_Vendetta • 13 hours ago Clinton is a neoliberal neocon. Kaine is also a neoliberal neocon. Period. That you see a lot of self-desc...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Sick Dog Notice

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I have a very sick 15 year old dog to care for so I will not be writing any new pieces for a day or more. I will try to post other content w...
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Real Politics Isn't Having A Tantrum And Insisting That People Do What Can't Be Done, Especially When You Helped Make It Impossible

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T here is still junk in the lefty magazines discouraging people from voting for Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, here is my answer to a piece ...
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Wow, I Never Thought Gordon Humphrey Could Surprise Me With His Grasp Of Reality

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Former Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire has done something that shocked me, he has said that Donald Trump is deranged and unsuited t...

Hate Mail - What You Don't Know About Classical Musicians Is Pretty Much Everything

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H aving worked in classical music for my entire adult life and back into my adolescence, I think I could probably count the number of conser...
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Donald Trump Didn't Come From Nowhere His Candidacy Is A Product Of The Intentionally Inoculated Rotting of Democracy

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I n a campaign which has been nothing except one disturbing comment, one disturbing incident after another, Donald Trump's not very veil...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

My Last Word On The Topic, For Now

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I t was the great playwright August Wilson, as I recall, who pointed out that in the movie Crossroads, it was a white teenager whose life ex...
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Hate Mail - We Need A Real Left Which Is Ready To Leave The Stuff That Never Works Behind

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I first went online, I think, sometime in the late 90s.   I really don't remember when it happened.  I do know that my time online incr...
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Monday, August 8, 2016

I'll Let Martha Davis And Her Spouse Say It For Me

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When I say "out" I mean away. Update:  Dopey's entire universe of blues artists who matter consists of one artist who he...

Hate Mail From The Drooling Fool

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steve simelsAugust 8, 2016 at 12:25 PM "You're the standard white-focused pop-music hack who proved he was ignorant of a major bl...
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Hate Mail - I'll Let William Bolcom And Joan Morris Say it - Radical Sally

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Joan Morris, voice William Bolcom, composer and pianist

In Honor of The Day After Marilyn J. Ziffin's Birthday

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I had intended to build up to the 90th birthday, yesterday, of Marilyn J. Ziffrin, American composer, musician, biographer of Carl Ruggles,...
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Deathwatch U.S.A.

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I am old enough so I remember hearing the children of Republicans telling other children to "go back to Russia", on the school pl...
Sunday, August 7, 2016

Hate Mail - Between Hillary Clinton And The Media, She's The One Of Proven Integrity

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If there's one thing that Hillary Clinton knows, it's that no matter what she says, no matter what she does, no matter if she is sil...

Answer To An Expert

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BTW, Little Milton played harp -- Clapton is a guitarist.  For your lame criticism to make sense, you'd have to say "I'd rather...
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