Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Is America’s Militia Movement on the Rise? | The Nation
You may have seen it on the Colbert Report. A proposed walled city of “patriots,” known as The Citadel, received the particular dose of sarcastic humor the show reserves for militiamen and gun nuts. Colbert’s reading of the requirement that… Continue reading
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Video Games Inspiration for the Dying Art Of Japanese Woodprinting
Whether Hyrule or the Mushroom Kingdom, we’re used to video game heroes saving their own respective pixel worlds. This is the story of how video game characters like Mario, Link, and Kirby helped save a “floating world” (literally translated): ukiyo-e,… Continue reading
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Money and Power: The (Secret) City
Interesting bit of knowledge about the financial world of which I was unaware. I am not putting this forward to participate in conspiracy theories. I have read enough Robert Anton Wilson to know that can never be anything more than… Continue reading
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Youth of America: Sign Up for Obamacare
Sign up at healhcare.gov to learn more about Obamacare. October 1st is very near. This is when many will be able to sign up for the Affordable Care Act‘s mandated healthcare exchanges. Many on the Right want to see Millenials… Continue reading
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Wrong Turn: COIN Diplomacy and the Profits of War
“War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.” — Carl von Clausewitz (On War) “The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.” — Carl von Clausewitz As much as we like to… Continue reading
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▶ BBC: Kings of Glam | YouTube
Profiling the leading men of the glam rock era, Lisa Tarbuck guides us through the glittering careers of Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Noddy Holder, Brian Ferry, Elton John and honorary glam king Suzi Quatro. Industry men including producer Tony Visconti,… Continue reading
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A Slow Death by the Proper Name…
Since 1954, the World Meteorological Organization has been naming extreme storms after people. But we propose a new naming system. One that names extreme storms caused by climate change, after the policy makers who deny climate change and obstruct climate… Continue reading
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Largest fast food strike ever today: 58 cities will be affected – Salon.com
Fast food workers today plan to mount one-day walkouts against nearly a thousand stores in over fifty cities — the largest-ever mobilization against their growing, low-wage, non-union industry, which until last fall had never faced a substantial U.S. strike. The… Continue reading
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Quest for Fire
Fire is just a particularly vigorous oxidation process, one that you can understand even if you weren’t paying attention in chemistry lessons at school, as indeed James May didn’t. So what’s need to create a fire, why is a flame… Continue reading
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The necessity of self-promotion
Women may fail to win chairs because they do not cite themselves enough. One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as… Continue reading
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Poverty does bad things to your brain | Futurity
Poverty and the worry that goes with it uses up so much mental energy that the poor have little room in their brains for anything else. As a result, people of limited means are more likely to make mistakes and… Continue reading
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‘Shift’ Your Thinking about Coffee
My good brother Angelo Fesperman has opened a new coffee shop in Denton, Texas: Shift Coffee located at 112 E. Prairie just two blocks east of Ravelin’s Bakery. It is in a nice quiet area off the square and without… Continue reading
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▶ I’m a Ramblin’ Man | YouTube
Waylon Jennings rendition. Song written by Ray Pennington. Related articles Awesome Photos Of Buddy Holly And Waylon Jennings In A Photo Booth (buzzfeed.com) RIP Tompall Glaser, Key Architect Of Country’s ‘Outlaw’ Sound (y108.cbslocal.com) Tompall Glaser, an original Nashville outlaw, dies… Continue reading
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▶ Cynicism | YouTube
As a humble anarchocynic, I am a bit ashamed that I have not posted anything on the history of ancient Cyncisim in a while. Please recognize-please RE-COG-NIZE–that the contemporary usage of the term “cynic” is a slap in the face… Continue reading
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Fleeing from the Real World
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED Bill Watterson Creator of Calvin & Hobbes Commencement Speech to the Graduating Class of 1990 at Kenyon College I have a recurring dream about Kenyon. In it,… Continue reading
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Drawing – Seeing vs. Knowing | Zen School for Creative People
When we draw, there is often a conflict between what we see and what we know. The top sketch shows the head tilted back so far it cannot be seen. The body is “foreshortened” with the legs appearing longer and… Continue reading
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Henri Martin
Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin (August 5, 1860 – November 12, 1943) was a renowned French impressionist painter. Born in Toulouse to a French cabinet maker and a mother of Italian descent, Martin successfully persuaded his father to permit him to become… Continue reading
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