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, April 16, 2022

Lamentations of Jeremiah for Holy Saturday

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Friday, April 15, 2022

You Have To Choose - There Is No "Objective" Mechanism You Can Put That Off On To

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IN THE ATHEIST FAD OF THE OO's I shocked some people online when I pointed out that in many cases history is capable of producing some ...

Lamentations of Jeremiah For Good Friday In English

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  Here is part of it chanted in English from St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church in Houston, Texas.    The chanting of the Lamentations on...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Holy Thursday Chant In English - The Lamentations of Jeremiah For Holy Thursday

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THE TRAD-CATHOLICS have ruined the posting of Latin language music for me, I wouldn't want to risk doing anything that encourages that a...

Complaints, Complaints Complaints, that's all I get! - Hate Mail Before The Triduum

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The Director's voice vibrated with an indignation that had now become wholly righteous and impersonal - "If ever I hear again of an...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Hate Mail

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IT STRIKES ME AS MILDLY SAD that Julian Lennon can't think of anything more original and meaningful to contribute to the cause of suppo...

Friendly Commentary And Hate Mail

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RMJ HAS A  much more informed commentary on my posting about John the day before yesterday.   As I said, I'm not even a beginner and th...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Notice

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TO LET YOU KNOW I'm intending to continue with excerpts from Louis Boudin's Government by Judiciary after Easter because the Supreme...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Yet Again The Always Needed Commentary On John's Extremely Troublesome And, Variously, Valuable Gospel

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BEING LESS THAN A BEGINNER in this sort of thing, I have to admit that I find the scholarly writings about the Gospel of John some of the m...
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Sunday, April 10, 2022

Witness To Crucifixion

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THE CONTINUING NEWS of the Putin invasion of Ukraine,  Russian's support for it (apparently we can forget any dreams of them overthrowi...
Saturday, April 9, 2022

How Can A Christian Be For LGBTQ Rights? - Hate Mail - See the By The Way at the end

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IN HIS PREFACE to his book The Real Jesus, Luke Timothy Johnson says: When I was a PhD student in New Testament studies at Yale University ...
Friday, April 8, 2022

One More Footnote On The "open, glaring and scandalous tissue of lies" Issuing From "the Slaveholding wing Of the Supreme Court"

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WHEN I FIRST said that I suspected the reason the Taney majority in the Dred Scott decision made the unprecedented and outrageous claim tha...

I see in it a means of paving the way for our entire disfranchisement - The Roberts Court Is Doing Exactly What The Taney And Plessey Courts Did For Republican Partisan Reasons

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YESTERDAY when I was planning on a second part answer to some hate mail from Fredrick Douglass's The Lessons of The Hour, I was intendi...

About The Confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

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IN THE EARLY HOURS of insomnia, as I was thinking about what the brilliant Fredrick Douglass said in The Lessons of the Hour, I thought abo...
Thursday, April 7, 2022

no matter how hard he may work or how saving he may be, he is, in most cases, brought in debt at the end of the year, and once in debt, he is fastened to the land as by hooks of steel. If he attempts to leave he may be arrested under the law

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WHEN FREDICK DOUGLASS was very old and had more or less retired from public life, in 1894, the great journalist Ida B. Wells convinced him t...
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