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, July 4, 2020

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Dr. Cheryl Black - William's Leap For Freedom

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William's Leap For Freedom   William's Leap for Freedom, hosted by Dion Graham, is an original one hour audio drama based on t...

"In what non-religious sense is human equality self-evident?"

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S omewhere in my online drifting over the last couple of days I came across an assertion that Thomas Jefferson got his concept of "self...

How Bizarre And Sordid Is This Monument Bullshit?

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From Smithsonian Magazine : The son of polygamist Mormons from Idaho, Borglum had no ties to the Confederacy, but he had white supremacist...

You're Probably Wrong About Confederate Monuments

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This guy does what so few video makers at Youtube do, he gives extensive documentation .  I especially liked his reading of the GAR dema...
Friday, July 3, 2020

Late Hate Mail

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T he total incompetence of Associate-professor of Biology P. Z. Myers comparing a cell wall to a "wall" of driftwood that accumula...

Excellent Post

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The estimable rustypickup called RMJ's excellent post on the St. Louis couple who made themselves infamous by confronting peaceful march...

Repubican-fascists And Their Adoration of War Criminals

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If you think calling Republicans "Republican-fascists" is unfair, watch this. A man convicted of war crimes who accepts a par...
Thursday, July 2, 2020

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My experience of long holiday weekends is that people don't read blogs so I'm not going to bother writing much till Monday.  I hope ...

Probably The Stupidest Thing I've Heard An Atheist Ideologue Scientist Say About The Problem Of The Origin Of Life

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This is still my favorite example of how the atheist-ideologue-scientist's mind grasping for an answer to the improbability of their...

Dave Holland Quintet - How's Never

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I don't see any difference.    Let's try a music video. Steve Johnson, vibes Robin Eubanks, trombone Chris Potter, sa...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Oliver Messiaen - Visions de l'Amen: - I. Amen de la Creation

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Ralph van Raat and Hakon Austbo pianos

Continuing on with Hans Kung About The Radicalism Of The Gospel

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F inishing Hans Kung's listing of ways in which God and reality are presented as the ultimate of radicalism.  This is his third heading....

Why I Do Not Worship Random Chance As A Creator God - It's Just TOO Improbable - Hate Mail

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I will revise and correct a paragraph from the post you didn't like to make you like it even less. But that would get us back to just...

Here We Are Where We've Been Before, Where We Will Be

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B y heritage and personal experience of human folly,  I expected this pandemic to be terrible, it's been terrible and it is getting wors...

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Tomorrow is the day that Blogger pulls a change on us, I have no idea how that's going to go.  I will continue writing things,  I don...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Carla Bley - Life Goes On: Life Goes On

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Carla Bley · Andy Sheppard · Steve Swallow

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Sad that the really great Carl Reiner has died at 98.  He's one of the few people in the comedy field who maintained the hard work of be...

Elizabeth Warren Responds to Mike Pence's Misleading Coronavirus Press Conference

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Another day in the pandemic, another day when I've got a fever and sore throat and am thinking about getting close enough to the guy ...

John Roberts Is A Shifty Operator, Not A Principled Believer In Egalitarian Democracy Or Even Good Government

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M y take on the Louisiana abortion decision, a quite unexpectedly pro-choice (pro-choiceish, really) decision joined in by John Roberts, an ...

Freedom As A Gift From God Is Far More Logically Coherent Than Atheist-Materialist Treatment Of The Problem Of The Mind

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I am a little disappointed that though I had to take a day off from writing something important my usual messengers of materialism didn...
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