Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Government Fails When It Fails to Be Government
Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: Let’s start with a little game. Fill in the blanks: Government interventions over the past four decades have yielded a cascade of perverse incentives, bureaucratic diktats, and economic pressures that together are forcing… Continue reading
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A Torch for the Path to Omniscience | Lotsawa House
This is the word-by-word commentary on the text of the Longchen Nyingtik preliminary practices entitled, ‘A Torch for the Excellent Path of Omniscience’. Source: www.lotsawahouse.org Letting-go of frustration, practicing compassion, open to the Encompassing – #liberation Continue reading
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Quantum Teleportation Reaches Farthest Distance Yet
Physicists have teleported a light particle 15 miles (25 kilometers), making it the farthest quantum teleportation yet. Advances in quantum teleportation could lead to better Internet and communication security, and get scientists closer to developing quantum computers. About five years… Continue reading
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Drag queens: Life as Vocation in spite of gentrification
Another wonderful find by my Buddy-Friend-Guy, Christopher… For his series, Beautiful by Night, Hosking documents the lives of three senior drag queens Donna Personna, Collette LeGrande and Olivia Hart, performers at aunt Charlie’s Lounge, the very last gay bar in… Continue reading
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Wig In A Box – YouTube
On nights like this When the world’s a bit amiss And the lights go down Across the trailer park I get down, I feel had I feel on the verge of going mad And t… Source: www.youtube.com One of my… Continue reading
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The Path of the Sacred Clown: Where Trickster and Shaman Converge
Like Thomas Merton wrote, “In a world of tension and breakdown, it is necessary for there to be those who seek to integrate their inner lives not by avoiding anguish and running away from problems, but by facing them in… Continue reading
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You don’t need empathy to support a depressed person
Very true. I can admit that this has happened to me and that I have done it to others. Continue reading
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State Terrorism and Racist Violence in the Age of Disposability: From Emmett Till to Eric Garner
The larger reasons behind Eric Garner’s execution seem to be missed by most commentators. The issue is not simply police misconduct, or racist acts of police brutality, however deadly, but the growing use of systemic terror of the sort we… Continue reading
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Cotton and Capitalism: The Tapestry of Domination
The truth is that no one knows what “the history of capitalism” is because its history is just now being written. But if there is any indication of what it might look like, it appears in Sven Beckert’s remarkable and… Continue reading
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Candice Bernd: Don’t Frack With Denton!
A small city in Texas has taken a bold step forward by banning fracking within municipal limits. Source: www.truth-out.org My friend and fellow Dentonite, Candace, talks with Thom Hartman about the citizen supported local ban on fracking in Denton. Continue reading
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“Robert Anton Wilson” from The Occult World Routledge, 2014 | Erik Davis – Academia.edu
Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) born Robert Edward Wilson, was an American novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, and lecturer whose playful and prolific writings helped make him one of the most stimulating and influential popular thinkers in the ‘head’ or ‘freak’ currents of… Continue reading
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Teasing the Force
First international teaser trailer for Star Wars, Episode 7: the Force Awakens… Continue reading
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Embracing the broad cosmos
We never know with any certainty where we are going. Only conviction carries us forward. And such conviction, if it would do better than we did yesterday, must arise from a courageous assessment of who we are by looking at… Continue reading





