Yeah, that's fair. I'm more sensitive to the liberal side of things because that's the company I keep, especially in social media. The thing that really has changed very dramatically in our society in the last few years is the policing of language. There's a growing list of words that you just canno...

Monte Smith wrote:

crawjo wrote:His whole career, it seems to me, was oriented towards making liberals angry and uncomfortable. That's his greatest and most important legacy.

He's an inspiration to you and a major influence on letters but that's his greatest and most important legacy?

All those things are related.

If you think being a liberal and being a Democrat are interchangeable, You haven't been paying very much attention to the Democratic Party who don't sit much further left than Republicans did under Bush. Obama is not a liberal, he's a conservative with a liberal leaning, or two. It's not even debat...

Well, it's obviously not 100-0. But one thing I've noticed a lot in recent years is that there's a much stricter policing of the discourse that occurs. This is not just among liberals but everywhere. Never use the word faggot, never use the word retarded. Never suggest that being gay is a choice. Wa...

I'm 36. When I joined JC in 2003, I was 26. At that time much was made about my age. (I remember that when I turned 27 Clint Hopson made a joke that he had pairs of underwear older than me.) I think it's probably a bad sign for the music (or for the community) that I still seem to be basically the ...

LennyH wrote:

crawjo wrote:I just registered. You can't kill it now.

What made you join now, crawjo?

Glad you're here, of course.

Mainly just felt like saying something about Amiri Baraka. But I also wanted to see some of the old folks from JC again, try to recapture some of the old camaraderie.

So what you're saying is that if a large percentage of liberals have similar opinions they are simply victims of groupthink? If so, I couldn't disagree more. Other than that, that was a fine eulogy for a very intelligent and complex man. I don't see it as groupthink, but rather just holding to a ce...

I'm 36. When I joined JC in 2003, I was 26. At that time much was made about my age. (I remember that when I turned 27 Clint Hopson made a joke that he had pairs of underwear older than me.) I think it's probably a bad sign for the music (or for the community) that I still seem to be basically the y...

In recent years, Amiri Baraka has been a major inspiration for me, from his jazz criticism to his essays, his poetry, and his autobiography. This may sound horrible, but what I most like about him are his rough edges--the fact that his language often spills over into the ugly and the conspiratorial....

I just registered. You can't kill it now.