Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Targeting for erasure
The Christofascists are building up to lead a violent program against QUILTBAG Folx. Continue reading
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What performance-enhancing stimulants mean for economic growth
Towards the end of last year America began running short of medicines used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd), including Adderall (an amphetamine) and Ritalin (a central-nervous-system stimulant). Nine in ten pharmacies reported shortages of the medication, which tens of… Continue reading
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Tina Turner: Simply the Best
R. I. P. Tina Turner (1939-2023), one of the best entertainers with a real gift for transcending circumstances and being open to change. 🙏namaste sibling🙏 Continue reading
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The coming schism
An op, Ed from the Los Angeles Times that speaks to the growing rift between the highly conservative United States. Bishops conference for the Catholic Church here, and the Vatican, specifically, Pope Francis. While the pontiff makes every effort to… Continue reading
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What If the State Department of Transportation Tore Down Texas Highways?
When will Texas get real mass transit and stop enriching the companies that build roads??? Continue reading
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The fast fascist creep
It amazes me that 80 years on from the end of World War II, I still must share with my students to show them quotes like this. Look! It is happening around them and they do NOT pay attention… The… Continue reading
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More pollution for less pollution?
Rocks unearthed here [in Indonesia] contain traces of nickel, a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries. Extracting it, refining it and readying it for export is a gargantuan task. More than $1 billion has been sunk into the processing facility,… Continue reading
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Ready… set… leap!
Obviously, folks make leaps all the time: they leap for real joy, they leap to invalid conclusions, they leap into bad deals, etc. So a distinction must be drawn between springing-forth from the solid ground of critical experience (the dance… Continue reading
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Climbing Mountains
I was missing my brother quite fiercely today. I am not really sure why… I kept thinking about how we shared a love for Star Wars and SciFi Fantasy. Or how my eclectic taste in music is so much due… Continue reading
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Reading my life as a “useless passion”
Problem posing from my experience increases my existential literacy in the direction of liberatory praxis. Continue reading
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Philosophical Faith
Philosophical Faith, according to Karl Jaspers, provides each person a way of understanding the world and their place in it. Unlike religious belief, there is no need for a special revelation from a prophetic figure nor any required dogma to… Continue reading
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When daddy went homeward
A small memory of faith, hope, and love. Continue reading
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Aphorism Injection 24 April 2023
Playing with the root word L. IACERE (to throw). Continue reading
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Protected: SOME NOTES FOR CLASS
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading
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Transistance
Resistance is futile… We must TRANSIST! Continue reading
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I asked Google Bard to explain…
Google Bard helps folks understand how all social media and tech companies get SO VERY MUCH free labor from all those who use it. Continue reading
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Back to beginnings
Sometimes, it is better to junk some efforts with which you have been engaged than to continue their upkeep while simultaneously wasting your time. Social media was this for me. I was big proponent way back in 2008-2010. I saw… Continue reading
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No More Social Media
That is my intent and I hope to manifest a clean break. I will keep posting on here as blogging goes all the way back to when we still used Bulletin Board Systems to share our thinkering. And while I… Continue reading
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