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

Friday, August 5, 2022

democracy is my aesthetics and my ethics and more or less my religion - Hate Mail

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I HAVE BEEN struggling to write a piece about a segment of one of Marilynne Robinson's essays for the past two days.  Then I saw this f...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

What rustypickup

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 and RMJ Said   They don't care about the fetus either. None of the states that are pushing these extreme anti-abortion positions are...

Something which I doubt would much bother the Republican-fascists of the Roberts-Alito Court or the Bush v. Gore five who already showed us a little preview of what we can expect in the future going forward as we are headed

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In finishing his discussion of Supreme Court decisions that illustrate the irrational danger of government by judiciary, right after going i...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

There is now no such "plain and simple" rules of interpretation as Judge Lurton claims; on the contrary, there are now practically no rules at all.

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The rule that the violation of the Constitution must be "clear, palpable, and free from all doubt" had to disappear with the other...
Monday, August 1, 2022

The Meaninglessness Of Words And Phrases And The Consequences Under Judicial Despotism

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The first restraint to go by the board was the principle that this power was of an "awful nature," as Justice Iredell expressed it...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Such a power is denied to the courts, because to concede it would be to make the courts sovereign over both the constitution and the people, and convert the government into a judicial despotism.

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The almost penultimate post of Louis Boudin's 1911 article Government by Judiciary gets down to the problems of ending it because its da...

The Bible's Relevance Is Continual - Hate Mail

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"Vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!" and "Take care to guard against all greed ... for though one may be rich, one’s ...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

An Important Distinction To Notice

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 “That is the problem of many today who claim to be traditionalists. They are not traditionalists, they are backwardists.  Tradition is the...

Art Is Harder Than Reporting

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LISTENING TO THE INTERVIEW with Walter Brueggemann again to get that excerpt used here the other day, I noticed so much in it that I'm ...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Fats Navarro - Oo-Bop Sh'bam

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    Kenny Clarke And His 52nd Street Boys: Kenny Dorham, Fats Navarro (trumpet) Sonny Stitt (alto saxophone) Ray Abrams (tenor saxophone) Ed...

Ben Weber - Fantasia (Variations) op. 24 - William Masselos piano

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  It's a long time since I posted some music, I was thinking about this piece by a too much forgotten composer.

About Pope Francis Accepting A Great Honor Bestowed On Him And The Critics Of That Act

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IN THE CRITICISM of Pope Francis for having a great honor done to him, of him having a head-dress given him by a Chief Wilton Littlechild a...

". . . if each judge is to be governed by his own convictions of what is right or otherwise, I fear that restraints upon judicial, rather than upon legislative action, will be demanded by the people, ever jealous of the accumulation of power in the hands of a few."

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If you are wondering how much longer this series is going to last,  I'm ending here on page 27 of 34 pages, so a few days more.  If I co...
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