Thursday, December 19, 2024

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Monday, November 4, 2024

Saturday, October 12, 2024

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Sunday, September 29, 2024

Monday, July 1, 2024

A Brief Political Aside

 
 
I read in the NYT that Donald Trump is a liar. I think that gives him far too much credit. In order to lie about something, one must first determine the truth of the matter, then form an intention to prevaricate, and finally say something one knows to deviate from that truth. Such a process would entail far too much effort for Donald Trump. He appears to me to skip these steps and just bloviates (see above). That his subsequent utterances do not align with generally accepted facts about the world should surprise no one. With this method, he might get lucky every now and then and speak accurately but, by that point, intelligent people will have stopped listening.

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Monday, March 4, 2024

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

The Man In Black


Last night, Johnny Cash appeared to me in a dream and told me that the person who gives the most memorable performance of a song has a natural right of ownership in that song. I asked him how that would affect the royalty rights of the songwriter. He said it wouldn’t: the natural right was a moral not an economic right. I said, “OK, but doesn’t that also imply that the natural right of the performer may change depending on the memorability of subsequent performances—that public taste plays an outsized role in the determination of that right?” He agreed with me that it would and then I woke up.

Saturday, February 17, 2024

Wounded Knee

 

Let the mighty fall and their weapons of war perish. Let the rest of the world witness what the United States has become: a prematurely senescent empire, sponsor of genocide, racist, white Christian supremacist, a byword for vulgarity and violence.

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Friday, February 2, 2024