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, November 24, 2018

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Stephen Bain and Deborah Tucker - City Of Hands

City of Hands A group of people enter a competition to win a car, the winner being whoever can keep a hand on the car longest. As th...

Friday, November 23, 2018

Stupid Mail

Simels + Freki, hum. A little more mass of mendacity and Baby Blue will collapse into a baby Black hole of prevarication. The Britatheti...

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Harold Darke - Gloria from Communion Service in F

T he word for the sacrament of Communion, "Eucharist," means "thanksgiving". In one of his talks Walter Brueggemann ma...

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Unitary Executive Theory Is A Theory of Fascism Under the United States Constitution, That Makes It Far More Dangerous Than The "Alt-Right"

O n Ari Melber's show last night Ken Dilanian* pointed out that Trump's framing for his blatant attempt to use the Department of Jus...

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Harold Darke plays Darke - Meditation on 'Brother James's Air'

Here is Harold Darke playing one of his pieces on the same organ as the piece I posted last night, the one he played as the organist at S...

I Hope The New House Brings This Up Right Away Next Year

O ne of the things I advocate that Democrats in control of the House do this year is to make life as hard as possible for Republicans in th...

Hate Mail - Atheists Choose To See Things Ass Backward

Y ou, as all materialists and, in my experience almost all atheists, have it backward. T he fact that everything we perceive is done thro...

It's More Than Mere Reporting Of An Incident, It's The Truth

RMJ has an interesting post up based on an article at the Daily Beast on the minor obsession over the authenticity of the story found in J...

Dead Letter Hate Mail

D eep in the muck of my "awaiting moderation" comment pile I found some snarky stuff about Pope Francis allegedly claiming that Ch...

Monday, November 19, 2018

Just Felt Like Posting Harold Darke's Fantasy in E Major

I am generally not a huge fan of 20th century British tonal composition. There are some exceptions to that, I love Michael Tippett's m...

Why The Hell Are Unions Backing Republicans? - The Folly of Leftist Secularism

O ther than wishing they'd said "Some Unions" because the situation is a lot more nuanced than they are dealing with here, I t...

Just To Let You Know

I've been working on a couple of posts on different topics and found that once I started, they were way bigger than I thought at first. ...

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Timothy Daly - A Lapse In Behaviour

A Lapse In Behaviour A black comedy for radio Harold Carpenter is a piano teacher. Middle-aged, mild-mannered, he leads a pleasant, ...

Friday, November 16, 2018

Boclé Brothers Band - 007

Dave Liebman, soprano saxophone Jean-Baptiste Boclé, vibes, kat (mallet midi controller) Gildas Boclé, bass (composer) Marcello Pelli...

More Hate Mail

H ow stupid does a website have to be to carry the comments of Steve Simels who seems to most days of the year attribute opinions to me whic...

Stupid Mail

O h, good heavens, there are better names than "ranked choice voting". - Rachel Maddow had the idea of "1, 2, 3, voting...

Modern Living Just Gets Stupider and Stupider

I had somehow avoided knowing that "gender reveal parties" was a thing until I listened to Colbert's piece on it from last nig...

Ranked Choice Voting Threw A Real Bum Out In Maine's Second District!

H aving done it twice, I LOVE "RANKED CHOICE VOTING". In practice it is as simple as voting for your first choice to win an elect...

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Buffy Sainte Marie - Summer Boy

This song's been going through my head for the past several days. I have no idea why. I really like some of Buffy Sainte Marie'...

As The Republican-Fascists Are Stealing Even More Elections

T he current effort by Republican-fascists to steal elections in Florida, Georgia and elsewhere by the same kind of Brooks Brothers riot tac...

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