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, February 10, 2018

Saturday Night Radio Drama Erhard Schmied - Greetings From Fukushima

Greetings From Fukushima The Fukushima meltdown in faraway Japan refreshed and fortified the terrible memory of Chernobyl at a time wh...

Confession Not Proof: Last Post On The Bible Makes Sense

S ince the first week in Advent last December, I've been posting some excerpts from Walter Brueggemann's book The Bible Makes Sense ...

Tantalizing Hints But No Real Evidence: Update To The Update

I n the update to my sick-day post yesterday, I noted that Francis Bacon had proposed marriage to Elizabeth Hatton when she became the widow...

Friday, February 9, 2018

Hate Mail - Can You Make The Connection? If you can't your claims aren't supported.

N o, I hadn't read the story about the allegations that an obscure manuscript, “A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels,” written in 1...

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Thursday Night Radio Drama - Rhys Adrian - Passing Through

Passing Through Pat sits behind his newspaper at the same table in the same corner of the same pub every evening. He's a railway...

Kurt Andersen Gets It Entirely Wrong Even As It Seems He Gets A Little Of It Right

S omeone called my attention to this piece at the frequently counterproductive, atheist propaganda outlet, Alternet (originating at Raw Sto...

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Hurrah for Nancy Pelosi who I believe is still at 5 hours and then some into a speech in favor of passing the Dream Act or Democrats won...

Robin Holland - Exodus And The African American Experience

For about the past two weeks I've been going into the book of Exodus, reading a number of translations and versions, reading differen...

Stephen Colbert Correctly Diagnoses Elon Musk And The Scientists Of Doritos

Especially pay attention to the Elon Musk part of it, a rich man's mid-life crisis can last the rest of their life. Look at Trump,...

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Charles, Why Not Say What We Both Know And Most Other People Do, Too

As far as I know , President Obama’s DACA program never has been declared to be unconstitutional in any court of law. It is “considered to b...

There Is No More Reason To Believe Even One Other Universe Exists Than There Is In A Six-Day Creation, They Both Have The Same Basis In Evidence

There is a philosopher called Friedrich Hegel, whom I must confess I specifically detest And I am happy to share that profound feeling with...

I had another appointment this morning, Tuesdays are a bad day for me, I'm working on something to post later.

Monday, February 5, 2018

About The Ad

I didn't see the ad till today, I didn't hear about it till today but all I can say after hearing it is I think Dexter King is a mon...

I Think Your Claim Wound Down To Absurdity A Long Time Ago, Though Not In An Infinite Past

How indeed can you test what existed before the universe existed? You can’t . George Ellis G eesh, try thinking, for once. A steady-st...

Rocks In Their Heads All The Way Up

T he "turtles all the way down" slogan I referred to the other day is a popular locution amone pop atheists, I don't think th...

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Oh, dear, no. I would say I generally don't reply to Simp's simplicity. There are literally hundreds of his attempted comments se...

Things You Can Do This Afternoon While That Dumb Game Is Going On

1. Read Echidne of the Snakes three part book review about Jordan Peterson and why his cult is buying a bucket of bilge. Part 1 Part 2 ...

I Repeat: Did You Really Expect Me To Care If The Traitors Are Going To Play During The American Mammonist's Religious Holiday?

So, what I have decided, and I'm not going to let you vote on this (laughter) I have decided that the Jesus movement, the earliest Jesus...

Whine, Whine, Whine, It's All You Guys Do

T he claims about improbability of things occurring at random, by chance is most easily understood in terms of some larger number as oppose...

Saturday, February 3, 2018

Now, That's Theater - Dossier vs. Memo

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