CALL ME MAGGIE

Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • Rolling Space Clouds

    Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Related articles Wired Space Photo of the Day: Hoag’s Object (wired.com) Moon Lava (willscienceforfood.com) Hubble telescope spots azure blue planet where it rains glass (fox6now.com) Hubble picks up giant space… Continue reading

  • When And Why By Rabindranath Tagore

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    When And Why By Rabindranath Tagore

  • When Did I Stop Wanting to Be President?

    Originally an essay, here Burroughs answers the question talking about his boyhood and early flirtations with the idea of political power, describing a potential panorama of a glorious career as a commissioner…. Related articles Naked Lunch (myoldaddiction2.wordpress.com) William S. Burroughs:… Continue reading

    When Did I Stop Wanting to Be President?

  • George Zimmerman, Propriety, and Losing Way

    Got up this morning and began looking through the reactions about the George Zimmerman acquittal. As usual, Charles P. Pierce over at Esquire magazine’s Politics Blog caught my eye… Thought experiments are useless now. Of course, if the races of… Continue reading

    George Zimmerman, Propriety, and Losing Way

  • Open Access and Its Enemies, Redux

    Originally posted on jbrittholbrook: I don’t have time to be doing this, but it’s important. Making time is a state of mind — as, claims Cameron Neylon, is ‘Open’: Being open as opposed to making open resources (or making resources… Continue reading

  • Debt – a global scam | New Internationalist

    Large outstanding personal debts – say a mortgage taken out during a housing bubble – can turn even the stoutest of us into ‘quivering insomniac jellies of hopeless indebtedness’ (as Margaret Atwood so accurately puts it). Debt is, we feel,… Continue reading

    Debt – a global scam | New Internationalist

  • Big-Food’s Impact on the South: A View from Brazil

      Traditional long-established food systems and dietary patterns are being displaced in Brazil and in other countries in the South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) by ultra-processed products made by transnational food corporations (“Big Food” and “Big Snack”).This displacement increases… Continue reading

    Big-Food’s Impact on the South: A View from Brazil

  • [Harper’s Index] | August 2013

      …Net amount contributed to Medicare by immigrants between 2002 and 2009 : $115,000,000,000 Net amount drawn out by native-born citizens over the same period : $28,000,000,000 Average amount a Water Valley, Mississippi, hospital bills Medicare for treating pneumonia with no complications : $4,552 Average amount… Continue reading

    [Harper’s Index] | August 2013

  • Beautiful End of a Star’s Life

    http://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/07/13/this-photo-shows-the-beautiful-end-of-a-stars-life/ Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading

  • Daodejing 44

    #44* Fame or life: Which is dearer? Life or fortune: Which is most valuable? Gain or loss: Which is more harmful?  Hence, excessive love Is bound to great cost. Too many possessions Is bound to great loss. Knowing satisfaction, [1] Avoid… Continue reading

    Daodejing 44

  • Babich: Van Gogh’s Museum and the Temple at Bassae

    A colleague at Fordham University, Babette Babich, who I highly respect, has been updating her articles at academia.edu. Among these is the article linked below. As I have been posting a lot of my favorite paintings as well as some… Continue reading

    Babich: Van Gogh’s Museum and the Temple at Bassae

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  • Daodejing 43

    #43* The softest entity under heaven gallops [1] through the hardest. The intangible Penetrates the solid. [2] Therefore, I know the  the benefit of wú-wěi. [3] The teaching without words. The benefit of wú-wěi: Few under-heaven Keep pace with this. *Translation by LU… Continue reading

    Daodejing 43

  • THE NEW SODOM

    I am utterly disgusted by this. Last year, at the Colorado state high-school wrestling tournament, three upperclassmen from Norwood cornered a 13-year-old boy on an empty school bus, bound him with duct tape and sodomized him with a pencil. Two… Continue reading

    THE NEW SODOM

  • The Flying Monkey Caucus

    Charles P. Pierce certainly is fired up over at Esquire. Rightfully so: The Republican Farm Bill drops food stamps for the poorest while keeping plenty of subsidies for big agribusiness. Earlier this week, [Speaker John] Boehner pretended he was leading… Continue reading

    The Flying Monkey Caucus

  • apple cider vinegar

    Originally posted on Home Remedies | Indian Natural Cure | Effective Treatment at Home: Home Remedies | Indian Natural Cure | Effective Treatment at Home View original post Continue reading

  • Twitter vs Facebook vs Blog

    Originally posted on Three Wise Guys: Twitter Vs Facebook Vs Blogs     Its an age old question, assuming your age is less than 10 years.   There are casual users for each who use them to stay in touch… Continue reading

  • POISON (OIL ON CANVAS) 72X48 inches

    Originally posted on yavishtha: CLAIRVOYANCE is a super normal mode of perception which results in a visual image being presented to conscious mind. the perception may be of object or scenes or forms distant in space or in time , past or future or… Continue reading