Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Denutting a Will
As my colleague Bob F. comments, a beautiful takedown of a pundit who has become ever nuttier. Even if Will didn’t have his facts backward, the larger point is that his analysis of transportation choices as a cultural struggle is… Continue reading
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Reinventing the Wheel: A Brief History of the Circle as a Visual Metaphor for Organizing Information | Brain Pickings
“Everything rolls, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being,” Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Indeed, it seems that for as far back as we’re able to peer into human history, the wheel has been one of our… Continue reading
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Supremely Smug Plutocrats vs. the Supreme Pontiff
My claim: The wealthiest Plutocrats within the 1% use religion and its morality to support their estate as the most powerful. Toward that end, such men and women will often weigh in on issues that they do not care so… Continue reading
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Distractions and Slippery Slopes in US Healthcare
Everyone in the United States who is healthy could at any moment, due to an accident or an unknown genetic predisposition, find her/himself in need of medical care. The whole point for some kind of medical insurance rests on not… Continue reading
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The New Rules of Public Art
Originally posted on Public Art Now: Demand new rules for public art now! An organisation born in Bristol, UK, Situations reimagines what public art can be and where and when it can take place. We like to think and reflect… Continue reading
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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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