Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Protesting with a mirror
http://m.imgur.com/r/pics/RVwXHIx Great visual and awesome tactic shared with me by my good brother Joseph C. Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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One of the World’s Most Powerful Financiers Worried About Damages of Wealth Gap
…Bill Gross, the most powerful bond manager of his generation and co-head of a $2 trillion investment management firm… rankled a few of his peers and clients in the fall when he joined a growing chorus that is raising caution… Continue reading
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Editing Your Life’s Stories Can Create Happier Endings : Shots – Health News : NPR
Wilson has been studying how small changes in a person\’s own stories and memories can help with emotional health. He calls the process \”story editing.\” And he says small tweaks in the interpretation of life events can reap huge benefits.… Continue reading
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Your brain on BEER vs. COFFEE – I Love Coffee
Your brain on BEER vs. COFFEE – I Love Coffee. Your brain on BEER vs. COFFEE – I Love Coffee. Continue reading
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The Mariachi Mass
It’s a musical tradition found in Mexican-American enclaves mostly in southwestern U.S. cities. The mariachi Mass brings an ensemble of garishly dressed folk musicians — with their guitars, trumpets and violins — right down to the front of the church,… Continue reading
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A step in the right direction
A federal judge has rejected the mandatory drug testing of welfare recipients. U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven ruled against Florida’s drug testing program, writing, “[T]here is nothing inherent to the condition of being impoverished that supports the conclusion that… Continue reading
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Laying claim
“Only a thought that does not conceal its own unsaid–but consantly takes it up and elaborates it–may eventually lay claim to originality.” Giorgio Agamben, The Signature of All Things (2009, 8) Continue reading
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The Devouring Abyss
George Monbiot at The Guardian examines the desperation to be found in the lives of those who have known nothing but or giving themselves over to the materialist worldview that drives the Society of Control. To think of the world… Continue reading
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Unearthing music
We all knew that Stone Age humans were hunters and gatherers. But sculptors and flutists? Archeologists announced today that they had unearthed the oldest musical instruments ever found — flutes that inhabitants of southwestern Germany laboriously carved from bone and… Continue reading
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Flowing Exploration
Metaphysics as a way of thinking suffers from confusion with superstition. As I have noted before, superstition encompasses more than the narrow notion thrown around by the “educated” where a person has irrational beliefs about a relationship between an imagined… Continue reading
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Upon the Depths of Uncertainty
Consider metaphysical thinking as the building up of vessels allowing us to explore the oceans of reality. Their hulls carry the provisions of our accumulated knowledge. Their rudders direct course by the pole star of the “Why not?” Their sails… Continue reading
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International: Ripe for rebellion? | The Economist
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a sister company of The Economist, measures the risk of social unrest in 150 countries around the world. It places a heavy emphasis on institutional and political weaknesses. And recent developments have indeed revealed a… Continue reading
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What You Believe About Homosexuality Doesn’t Matter | In The Parlor
Very well said. Very well said… The debate over the “rightness or wrongness” of homosexuality has once again been fired up. The appeals to the Biblical passages have been made. The academic rebuttals to the interpretation of those passages has… Continue reading
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Maybe Logic Academy
Goes well with my own thinking about philosophizing and why we keep asking questions. Founded in 2004, Maybe Logic Academy is an innovative online learning institution and community. The Academy features online courses by some our most important and ground-breaking… Continue reading
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Learning the Difference between Neo-Liberalism and Progressivism in the Poverty Nation
There is a big difference to be made between the progressivism that once was the hall-mark of left-wing politics and the left-leaning wing of neo-liberalism. This article, focusing on how corporations–and I would add many colleges & universities–make use of… Continue reading
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