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, September 3, 2016

Dusan Bogdanovic - Six Balkan Miniatures

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Dimitar Daskalov, guitar When I'd posted these pieces in another performance I didn't know that they were composed as a kind of ...

Hate Mail - My But They're Really Getting Pissy This Week

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"There's no romance in television: it's just the Wal-Mart of the mind." - Garrison Keillor Radio drama requires imagina...
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Saturday Night Radio Drama The Mystery Project from the CBC - Gordon Pengilly - Bailey's Way - Simply Judy

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Simply Judy  The mechanisms different authors use to write a 30 minute or hour long drama are interesting. One of the ways they can mov...

You Are A Nazi Revisionist - Hate Mail

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To pretend that the Nazis' only or even first group of people on their list of those to be entirely slaughtered were the Jews is to dist...
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Friday, September 2, 2016

Hate Mail - A Definitively Dumb-assed Thing To Say

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N one of Williams Shirer's books on Germany during the rise of Nazism and on to its fall are nearly "the definitive account of the ...
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Hate Mail - A Cineaste Denies that Birth of a Nation Had A Major Influence In The KKK Revival Of The 1920s

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My dog took another turn for the worse, but isn't in pain.  I can't justify euthanizing my loyal dog just because taking care of him...
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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Typing Out Danger, Typing Out Warning

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I t is one of the rare good things on television these days that people like Rachel Maddow, Bill Moyers and Samantha Bee, in covering curren...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

You Won't Fix Maine's Elections Without Getting Past The Fairness Folly

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In puzzling over how Maine got Paul LePage as governor the generally sensible Charles Pierce said this,  It is possible that LePage has...

Whether Freedom of the Press Matters Is Entirely Up To The Press And They're Proving It Doesn't

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A s I've mentioned before, of the rights in the First Amendment to the Constitution "freedom of the press" is an artificial, m...
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Dušan Bogdanović - Reversible Cowboy

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Dorian Avila, guitar I needed something to make me smile this morning.  This is one of the "7 Easier Polymetric Studies"  T...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Dusan Bogdanovic - Nuovi Ricercari

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Dusan Bogdanovic and Bor Zuljan, guitars I don't have the music but I suspect Mr. Bogdanovic uses time signatures you're unlike...

The National Media Is What Made The Trump Pivot Not Trump - Paul LePage Is the Head On The Septic Carbuncle That Is Republican Fascism

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My immediate response to the news stories this morning that Paul LePage had hinted that he might resign was that I'd believe it when it ...

If You Insist On Classifying People Geographically

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Y ou know, if you insist on classifying people geographically as you do, I'm a lot more impressed with more of the people I've met a...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

Dušan Bogdanović - Sonata no. 3 Encore

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For someone who began the month never having heard of Dušan Bogdanović and having spent the last two weeks listening to his music and lookin...
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Just Dumb Mail

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Y ou don't know how funny it is to me to find out that apparently a couple members in good standing at the Baby Blue Brain Bust don'...

Anthony Weiner Shouldn't Become Hillary Clinton's Problem, If His Wife Decides To Keep Him Her Problem Is Another Matter

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I t's not fair but that's not my fault but I think Huma Abedin's eternally assholish 12-year-old husband Anthony Weiner is goi...
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With Plenty To Apologize For, That Accusation Is Something Someone Like An Ignorant Yokel from New York City Would Make

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"Maine is Missisippi (sic) north" Um, well, if you overlook such things as it being the first state to vote in marriage equality...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016

Hate Mail - 1

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Who would sight-sing the Mikrokosmos?   Well, if you open to page 4 you will read the account by the person it was first written for, Pete...

Einstein's Superior Understanding In His Essay On Racism 1946

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I read this blog post by Trent Gillis this morning, most of it a short essay written by Einstein.  It is tempting to note that even as the...
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Hate Mail - Post Literacy Is The Problem Not Post Modernism

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A ll I did was take what Steve Weinberg claimed to its logical conclusion. If you don't like that conclusion, your problem is with your ...
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