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, October 20, 2018

Stupid Mail - "Hawking said that there is no god"

Who died and made him God? Stephen Hawking was about as qualified to opine on the topic of the existence of God as he would have been on ...

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Glacio (?) - Utopia

Utopia Note: The play is in English. This week we received a mysterious submission from a mysterious stranger who only identifi...

So you want a uniform, universal explanation of reality, do you?

S omeone apparently thinks that the multiplicity of theologies is evidence that discredits theology. The list I gave the other day, several...

Friday, October 19, 2018

Amy Goodman Futility Now - Hate Mail

At your insistence I looked at a little of Amy Goodman and the panel she had on misrepresenting what Elizabeth Warren said, as always the De...

Stupid Mail - It's another day I'm caring for my failing brother in law so, just a quick one

F rom Ducan's Daycare for the Demented and Conceited with commentary. Avatar bongo fury • an hour ago What we need is self writing b...

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Why I Gave Up On The Secular Left In Favor Of The Religious Left

L istening to that Youtube of Michael Brooks, a call-in Maoist, Jamie Peck, et all discussing Maoism and a "Marxism for the 21st centur...

Do Preppies Know What Real People Are Like?

D uncan Black this morning THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2018 Do People Know What "Pre-Existing Conditions" Are? I woke up ...

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Hey If The Management Of The NYT Is Soft Peddling Street Violence Maybe They Should Get To Experience Some

The New York Times has always been a fraud as a liberal paper. What it always has been is the Susan Collins of "liberal" papers, ...

Stupid Mail - From The Strip Mall of Babel

I guess my scripto continua joke yesterday went over the heads of those I expected it to go over. Scripto continua, the earliest form of w...

An Article Worth Your Serious Reading

G ot called out in the night. I'm just back at my place to pick up a few thing before heading back so I don't have time to write. ...

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Simps Is Trying To Impose Himself As My Editor

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Donald Trump Owes Elizabeth Warren A Million Bucks - And Why Democrats Must Take Direct Control Of Its Nominations Process

I so hope this means she is running and that she is running is going to persuade Bernie Sanders to announce, early, that he is not runnin...

Monday, October 15, 2018

An Answer

I think to a large extent it's ridiculous to still be battling over Charles Darwin and his theory of natural selection. What science st...

Sunday, October 14, 2018

On Scientists Using Metaphors They Don't Really Understand or Having It Both Ways At Once

I was asked to comment on the recent Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for which one of the three scientists awarded this years prize, Dr. Frances H...

Saturday, October 13, 2018

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Paul Bae - The Big Loop

The Big Loop The Big Loop is an anthology of recent audio dramas written by Paul Bae. I just came across it yesterday and I've...

The Quality of Harshness: Kavanaugh And His Self-Serving Double Standard On The Age Of A Criminal Accusation

T he idiocy that "justice" is and should be impartial instead of always in service of the right of people to cast a free and infor...

Friday, October 12, 2018

Mark Blyth - Why People Vote for Those Who Work Against Their Best Interests

I had never listened to or read the anti-austerity scholar Mark Blyth before yesterday, he has a lot to say that is interesting. It...

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Just Because He's Nuts Doesn't Mean He's Not A Scumbag

Kanye West is a reminder that even someone who is seriously mentally ill can also be a flaming asshole. I didn't know much about him un...

Stupid Mail - What Do You Get From A Glut Of TV?

Rule # 1 to remember if you want to follow the war between Simps and myself is that Simps is incapable of understanding anything more nu...

There's Nothing Hard About This: When People Are Swayed By Propaganda They See On TV THAT Is Where It Comes From

I have been volunteering for a campaign for a Democratic candidate to a state office, a couple of weeks ago, as I might have mentioned, he t...

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