Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Sheryl Sandberg: “Men need to do more childcare and housework” – Salon.com
For her new book, “What Will It Take to Make a Woman President?,” veteran journalist Marianne Schnall interviewed high-achieving women about why the highest glass ceiling in the land is still in place. The following is taken from her talk… Continue reading
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Willing Embrace
In order to open up a cipher of the Encompassing Good, our mindfulness must turn to what obtains eternally, hold it as an idea, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will. A paraphrase of… Continue reading
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The government needs to reform its relationship with technology
…MindMixer works to create a platform to more easily create dialogues between citizens and political figures. Bowden explains it as bringing the “town hall meeting concept online.” At heart, though, is the understanding that the government needs to integrate and… Continue reading
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Henry A. Giroux | Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University
Across the globe, the forces of casino capitalism are on the march. With the return of the Gilded Age and its dream worlds of consumption, privatization and deregulation, not only are democratic values and social protections at risk, but the… Continue reading
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Are we all screwed if we refuse to stand up and push back?
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year’s conference… Continue reading
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Surviving the post-employment economy – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
A lawyer. A computer scientist. A military analyst. A teacher. What do these people have in common? They are trained professionals who cannot find full-time jobs. Since 2008, they have been tenuously employed – working one-year contracts, consulting on the… Continue reading
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Some Clarifications on “No One is Born Gay”
Originally posted on Social (In)Queery: I wrote this post a while back and had I known how many people would read it and how many excellent questions and comments I’d continue to receive, I would have addressed the subject more exhaustively. … Continue reading
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at last november
Going up now to the shop to drop off the car for Chris so I can walk back homeward cool air–at last November Continue reading
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Meet the Pacific Rim’s new environmental superpower – Quartz
Together, the west coast of the US and Canada boasts a population of 53 million and would form the world’s fifth-largest economy, a Pacific Rim center of technological innovation with a gross domestic product of $2.8 trillion… think of the… Continue reading
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13 Staircases Worth the Climb (Photos) | The Daily Beast
First it was guns, germs and steel, then it was salt—now, it’s the invention of stairs that changed the history of mankind. In a new book, Staircases (published by Vendome Press this month), co-authors Oscar Tusquets Blanca, Martine Diot, Adelaïde de Savray,… Continue reading
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tilting between dusk and dawn
groggy from napping rainy yet warm Texas dusk feeling out of place The weather has been out of sorts in Denton lately. Tomorrow is Halloween and we have yet to have a real cold snap. The weather has been humid… Continue reading
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Modern Eco-Friendly Homes Set Amongst the Trees
Modern Eco-Friendly Homes Set Amongst the Trees http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/konrad-wojcik-primeval-symbiosis-single-pole-house Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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almost encounter
fame is a strange thing the talk of many who know relative number 100 rhetoricians 1,000,000 people at large each is a “many” although both really are few compared to the All yesterday I almost met some one whose name… Continue reading
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charged idea
writing electric words floating in the ether capturing fireflies Continue reading
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Iris
blue flag irises looking just like their images in the water kakitsubata / nitari ya nitari / mizu no kage —matsuo bashō Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Related articles Blake and Bashō (keithwaynebrown.com) Carpe Diem:… Continue reading
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Opening up films
The opening scene of Orson Welles‘ Touch of Evil. The opening scene of Roman Polanski‘s The Tenant. The opening scene to Harvey Fierstein‘s Torch Song Trilogy. The opening scene to Robert Altman‘s The Player. The opening scene to Marry Harron’s American Psycho. Related… Continue reading
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