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George Zimmerman’s Art Sells for Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
Originally posted on Critique Collective: Another wild story about George Zimmerman is surfacing. Back in July, Zimmerman was acquitted on a charge of second-degree murder and manslaughter for shooting and killing Trayvon Martin. So, what could be the new controversy… Continue reading
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Banished for Questioning the Gospel of Guns – NYTimes.com
Strange that so many of my peers who decried Duck Dynasty Scion having his 1st Amendment Rights trampled on by A&E are not even whispering a word about Dick Metcalfe being summarily fired from all connections because Gun Manufacturers wanted… Continue reading
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The import of the Sardonic and the Uncertain
From Frank Herbert’s Dune . Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never persistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect… Continue reading
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Spirit of Steller’s Sea Eagles of Hokkaido
Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: At some time or another, I think everyone has wondered what it would be like to fly…to soar above our world and look down upon the chaos below with detachment. Our natural… Continue reading
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I Am Not My Job: Why I Left New York City
It was Patti Smith who said, in a talk at Cooper Union in 2010, that “New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling.” Smith wrote in her memoir, Just Kids, about coming to New York as… Continue reading
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 31,000 times in 2013. If it were a… Continue reading
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Fete of the Rose Garlands
Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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God is more liberal than most people think
Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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The Bad Faith of Neo-Liberals
I do not know why this kind of agreement should be any surprise to those who have been paying attention to what neoliberals have been trying to do to pensions across the USA. It has become a standard operating procedure… Continue reading
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