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 10, 2018

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Kressmann Taylor - Address Unknown

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Address Unknown   Tim Dee's adaptation of Kressmann Taylor's novel, published in 1938. Two old friends, former business ass...
Friday, March 9, 2018

Worth Reading

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Had a few minutes today so I went looking to see if I could find Marilynne Robinson's essay I'm excerpting anywhere online.   I didn...

Copland Plays Copland - Sonata for Violin and Piano - Two Performances

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I've posted this first-performance of Aaron Copland's Violin Sonata, him accompanying Ruth Posselt before. I found this later r...

The Books Are Bound To Be Better But . . .

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B y 1962  when A Wrinkle in Time was published I was already a bit older than its target audience.  But I have read the book to nieces and n...
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"by the standards of his time and of ours"

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A fter where I left off yesterday there is a paragraph in which Marilynne Robinson points out that compared to English law in the Tudor peri...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Hate Mail

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Oh, that's just another lie.  I never said that about Lenny Bernstein.  You can search my blog to find out what I said and how I backed ...
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Gerald Clayton - Trapped In A Dream

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Piano - Composer: Gerald Clayton Double  Bass: Joe Sanders Drums: Justin Brown Update:  One Two You

An Even More Appropriate Replacement For Hail To The Chief In The Trump Error

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Thursday Night Radio Drama - Nick Warburton - Paradise

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Antonia is moving to the country after resigning from her city job. She finds an ideal cottage selling for about half its proper price, a...

This Story of a 93 Year Old Spy From WWII Who Started The First European AIDS Hospice Is An Inspriation

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Helen Taylor Thompson sent coded messages to spies in occupied France during World War II. "One mistake and someone's life could ...

"Deregulation means unleashing greedy power."

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A Conversation with Walter Brueggemann and Kenyatta Gilbert

"Do unto others" is a behest that, if acted on, can have very tangible real-world consequences.

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C ontinuing where I left off yesterday,  Marilynne Robinson sets out an argument for the liberality of Mosaic Law: Like old Israel, the ...
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Hate Mail

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That asshole has been calling me an antisemite for the past six or so years because I said that I wished there were more Jews living in the ...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

"Thou Shalt Be Liberal"

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I n one of her most important essays, Open Thy Hand Wide [from When I Was A Child I Read Books ]  Marilynne Robinson makes an extremely pers...
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Monday, March 5, 2018

Sid Caesar - "This is Your Story" with Carl Reiner and Howard Morris

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There was a time when comedy was funny. A Streetcar Named ??? I'd better knock it off because I could watch these all night. ...

That's What I'm Talking About - The Birthday Present Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca

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It's striking how much longer and more sophisticated the skits were back then.   TV has destroyed the American attention span. 

“new Jewish humor” embraces rather than stigmatizes Judaism

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T his statement from Rabbi Waldoks , who was quoted below, is interesting and I think not unrelated to what I said about the use of Jewish t...

Hate Mail - Waiting For The Other Sock To Drop But Not Very Hard

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I'm not interested in stories about your imaginary friends who had this or that alleged experience, tell the woman to post her own story...

As The Nazi Whines - Right on Cue

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I don't much listen to NPR anymore, when there's the CBC available online, why listen to the pathetic thing NPR has turned into.  So...

"I sell tallises." The Far From Innocuous Use of Stereotypes In Comedy

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I magine that, I have to point out to the self-promoted expert on all such things the history of comic Jewish stereotyping by American Jewis...
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