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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, June 30, 2024
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
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Thursday, June 20, 2024
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Monday, February 26, 2024
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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.
Sunday, February 18, 2024
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.
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