Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Inability to govern
Daily News is not my usual go-to paper. But this was too funny. Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Related articles Obama in Shutdown Politics Channels Clinton Who Proved a Winner (bloomberg.com) Every government shutdown ever,… Continue reading
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» “Other-Appreciation” :AMSDaily
What I know now, however, is as much as we all work so very hard on “self-appreciation” and “self-improvement” day in and day out, sometimes it is alright to take a few moments to practice “other-appreciation.” via » “Other-Appreciation” :AMSDaily.… Continue reading
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Oscar Peterson Trio and Ben Webster – Come Sunday [1972] – YouTube
NDR Jazz Workshop “Funkhaus Hannover”, Germany – December 14, 1972 Ben Webster – Tenor Sax Oscar Peterson – Piano Niels Henning Ørsted-Pedersen – Bass Tony Inzalaco – Drums Related articles BEN WEBSTER: from Kansas City to Copenhagen (rocketgrants.org) Oscar Peterson… Continue reading
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Saint Stephen The Ironist « The Dish
Some good points from Sullivan on Colbert as an example of what happens when one is capable of intelligence and irony while being a person of faith. If I were to sum up the various forms of popular culture that… Continue reading
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Beyond Savage Politics and Dystopian Nightmares
What kind of society emerges when it is governed by the market-driven assumption that the only value that matters is exchange value, when the common good is denigrated to the status of a mall, and social order is composed only… Continue reading
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Op-Ed – What’s Wrong With The Republican Party – Don’t Blame Ted Cruz
Originally posted on The Last Of The Millenniums: Ted Cruz is the result not the cause. So who to blame for a possible Government shutdown. What caused us to get to this point? How about the ‘main stream media’. When… Continue reading
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The Myth of Welfare Queens and the Reality of Racism
Fiscal conservative politicians including some Democrats like Bill Clinton have presided over a massive and systematic redistribution of wealth into the 1 percent since the 1980s. For African-Americans this means that we lost over half of our collective and meager… Continue reading
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Spellbinding experiences
Most everyday experiences are lessons in the inevitable pull of the future: books are replaced with e-books, laptops are replaced with tablet computers, billions of dollars are replaced with trillions of dollars, fresh is replaced with cling-wrapped. When travelling, however,… Continue reading
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The Hazards and Sacrifices of Chewbacca Cos-Play
Interview with a Comic-Con Chewbacca on His Sacrifices for Star Wars, Dating a Sith, and Almost Getting Run Over by Harrison Ford Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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Flow of Water ~ Flow of Life
Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: Years ago, my Dad and I were sitting in a duck blind in Eastern Oregon before dawn, and I mentioned how much I wanted to live near the Oregon Coast. The gist… Continue reading
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▶ Louis C.K. Hates Cell Phones | YouTube
Louis C.K. is fast becoming the go-to philosophic comic. Why? Well, it’s a melancholy tale filled with despair and hope and a Bruce Springsteen song. Continue reading
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On the Inspiration of the Bible and other Books / Von der Interpretation der Bibel und anderer Bücher (unten)
A thoughtful address from a newly discovered brother in the Ether. While I consider myself an anarchocynic daoist, I keep a sincere interest in the Christian Church and have made many wonderful new companions who think of themselves as progressive… Continue reading
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Was Plato on Drugs?
Originally posted on Becoming Integral: Notes on Planetary Coexistence: I posted a short piece a while ago about a few books on Plato, including one about Plato’s relationship to drugs (pharmaka). That piece gets a lot of views regularly, and… Continue reading
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Interview with Pope Francis I
I am not going to go back into the flock of the Catholic Church anytime soon. I know that. However, Pope Francis does continue to intrigue me. Who Is Jorge Mario Bergoglio?I am a sinner. This is the most accurate… Continue reading
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Textimony 20130918
Be ever mindful good friends: dialog is not a choice between victory or defeat. Authentic communication has many outcomes; winner and loser are not among them. Continue reading
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“Democracy”, Crisis, and Control
Ted Asregadoo speaks with U.C. Santa Barbara sociology professor, William I. Robinson, about the crisis of global capitalism and social democratic ways to address the financial, ecological, and social crises wrought by this system. Related articles Society of Control (keithwaynebrown.com)… Continue reading
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