Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Textimony 20120821
“Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.” – Virgil “Love, and then what you will, do.” -St. Augustine Continue reading
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Romney, Ryan, and The Devil’s Budget: Will America Keep Its Soul?
Budgets are moral documents. National, state, and local budgets are commitments about where and how to carry out the work of America’s soul, or to abandon it. A national budget that abandons the Public and the freedoms it gives us… Continue reading
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The Ridiculous Rise of Ayn Rand – The Conversation – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Continuing the non-discussion about Ayn Rand and her unfortunate influence: Right-wing think tanks can have Rand (even if she had little use for them). In the academy, she is a nonperson. Her theories are works of fiction. Her works of… Continue reading
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More notes from Bemis Woods…and Speeder
More notes from Bemis Woods…and Speeder Bikes « sittinginthewoods http://ow.ly/dc22X Continue reading
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Garbage and Gravitas Continued
I would like to thank my good brother & cherished cousin Carl Beck Sachs for this longer quote from Adorno which really nicely situates the article on Ayn Rand that I posted a while ago. I think it really speaks… Continue reading
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Afraid of the Dark and Loving It: Guillermo del Toro’s Idol, H.P. Lovecraft – Fandor – Essential films. Instantly!
The life and work of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, which includes hugely influential stories like “At the Mountains of Madness” and “The Call of Cthulhu” – are treated by his acolytes like the stuff of cult lore. Lovecraft’s xenophobia and propensity… Continue reading
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Carl Elliott – How to be an Academic Failure: A Guide for Beginners
How to be an academic failure? Let me count the ways. You can become a disgruntled graduate student. You can become a burned-out administrator, perhaps an associate dean. You can become an aging, solitary hermit, isolated in your own department,… Continue reading
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millipede love is mysterious and wild « sittinginthewoods
A new blog from a good brother & cherished cousin, Will Hudson. Will is one of my favorite poets and quick becoming one of my favorite environmentalists. There is an intrinsic value in the boundless wilderness and the complex and… Continue reading
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See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A new blog from a good brother & cherished cousin, Will Hudson. Will is one of my favorite poets and quick becoming one of my favorite environmentalists. 8^) See on sittinginthewoods.com Continue reading
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Kentucky’s GOP lawmakers question standards for teaching evolution in schools – KansasCity.com
One wonders when it will ever end. “I think we are very committed to being able to take Kentucky students and put them on a report card beside students across the nation,” Givens said. “We’re simply saying to the ACT… Continue reading
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Okay. After a few days of being bored by
Okay. After a few days of being bored by this and that… Color me amazed, I’ll tell ya what! Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram | ExtremeTech http://ow.ly/d3nnb Continue reading
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Karl Jaspers on the Struggle for Existence
My existence as such deprives others, just as they deprive me. Every position I occupy excludes another, claiming some of the limited space available. Every success I have diminishes others. My very life is due to the victorious struggle of my forebears, and… Continue reading
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Richard II « Keelan Foley
Personally I feel that Shakespeare’s plays are politically useful and an effective means of distributing “common thinking” as in class and society structures through popular mediums. Also Shakespeare was closely tied with the current monarchy of the time. He implanted… Continue reading
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Book Review: John Cage biography explores Zen Buddhist influence » TCPalm.com
In a new biography of this pioneering artist, art critic Kay Larson links Cage’s daring presentation of “the sound of no sound” to his growing interest in Eastern religion, particularly Zen Buddhism, at a time of personal crisis in the… Continue reading
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Should the South secede? – Salon.com
Before anybody jumps to the conclusion that I believe the south should secede, I want to state categorically that this is not the point of view from where I am coming. An interesting aspect of this interview is that the… Continue reading
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