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It's that time again...
The problem with the world today is that the smart people are full of doubt and the stupid people are full of confidence --Bukowski THE SECOND COMING Turning and turning in the widening gyre The...
View ArticleVignette explaining rock and roll to emo people...if people they are
Rock and Roll has come a long way from Pat Boone ripping off Little Richard... There is this though --Jerome Gee and his Happy Dancers... The original..B0bby Womack and the Valentinos... Womack wrote...
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Been away from the Blog Forge of Late
It's not that nothing happened; it's just that everything that happened pissed me off more. However, I saw an article today in Foreign Affairs that as Kant said of David Hume, awakened me from my...
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Sometimes it works, if not, hold 'em, flank 'em and whip 'em.
Ever See the Dustin Hoffman film from the early 70s, Little Big Man?There's a great sequence at the end, when Chief Dan George decides that it is time to die, and so he takes Hoffman in the title role...
View ArticleChristmas is not about being a crazy sonofabitch...that's President's Day!
Latest piece from Vets: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/12/20/merry-christmas-is-what-they-tell-me/ I thought I was writing a music piece...go figure? Comments are again fascinating...how anyone...
View ArticleSalon and Free Will and Philosophy
I went to see the doctor of philosophyWith a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his kneeHe never did marry or see a B-grade movieHe graded my performance, he said he could see through meI spent...
View ArticlePredictably predicative predictable bullshit
My dad told me that a good manager was right more than 51% of the time. I think he was right -- great managers and leaders probably get it right around 60% of the time, and generally get the big...
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Cognitive dissonance is touching my soul...
Empty Food Bank in New JerseySo the economy is growing tremendously, gas prices are down, unemployment is as good as it's been for decades, and yet the American people are unhappy and depressed. Wonder...
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Article 15
Democrat put us on our feet/ These crazy women, they vote them outDemocrat put us on our feet/ These crazy women, they voted them outBut I don't think they make the same mistake /Won't make the same...
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Finding meaning in the meaningless sprawl
Possibly the most important thing I have ever written, as edited by the incomparable Erica Wissinger. In fact possibly the most important thing that has ever been written since...writing! And then,...
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Gangster Time...
Nemtsov Murder Scene Investigation"Russia does not have a machinery of ideology or repression on the scale of the 1930s. Mr Nemtsov did not present any plausible political threat. But the country...
View ArticleKardashian influence on the world
Crusader AXE has a new piece on the Iranian deal up over at Veterans Today and while I think it's fairly reasonable, I was initially gratified to find the comments were all written not in drool or...
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And a bomb goes off and things get confused...
While I have not yet read Masha Gessen's The Brothers, her investigation into how the Boston Marathon Bombing happened and what followed, her column in the New York Times this morning is well worth the...
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Willie and Waylon and all are great examples of the craft of Texas songwriting, as are Lyle Lovett and Rodney Crowell and Robert Earle Keen but for me, Guy Clark is probably the most influential of...
View ArticleImplicit and explicit, dark and light..and shadow
I strongly recommend political junkies and philosophy fans take a look at Anat Belitzki's The Stone column in the this morning's New York Times, Making It Explicit in Israel. Excellent piece by an...
View ArticleHubris, sex and drugs and rock and roll
How covering your tracks with hypocrisy makes you worse than a mere predator...
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Why are we in Vietnam Again? Where's Norman Mailer when you need him"
When I was a kid, the writer who influenced me the most was Norman Mailer. I read everything, a lot of which was pretty insane, but most of which was brilliant, if hard to understand. Mailer was a...
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Sad, shortsighted species...
I've been very sick the last couple of weeks. One course of pretty nasty antibiotics and I started to feel better and then wham! Back to the local Stop&Doc where I got the first prescription and...
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Llamas never marched in a Triumph! Nor do they...
“A devil tempts a character to do something naughty, and the angel wags a threatening finger…I believe in these two entities as much as I believe in talking llamas…But I still kind of believe in a...
View ArticleAnother brick in the wall...
Ever notice that Dr. Sartwell's eyes appear baggy? This is probably why...Hey, Leviticus...should there be a discount because the girl is over 26?
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Look out! Cleveland, etc...
Look out, Cleveland, the storm is comin' through/And it's runnin' right up on youLook out, Houston, there'll be thunder on the hill, Bye bye, baby, don't you lie so still Kukla Fran and OllieThis is...
View ArticleLet's invade Afghanistan because it went soooo well last time...wait, we...
New post. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. Outsiders have trying that over and over and over with Afghanistan since Alexander the Great, and it didn't work...
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New post. Gratuitous although relevant Doors music. Shakespeare. List of Russian Movies on Afghanistan. General Character assassination of Trump, although there's really not that much to assassinate....
View ArticleTruth as something impossible to deconstruct
New post at the Veterans Today Daily Report. Some silliness but also a plea for workplace tolerance and the return of four letter words. We really do not appreciate the elegance of variances of "fuck"...
View ArticleUltimate Existential Nonsense except he thinks both are trash except thwn...
The idea that there has to be an author of a joke is properly paranoiac: it means that there has to be an “Other of the Other,” of the anonymous symbolic order, as if the very unfathomable contingent...
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