Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Why Hollywood Should Keep Destroying Cities – Sam Adams
In an essay posted Friday at The Dissolve, Tasha Robinson used Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim to counter the objections several critics have raised about the wanton destruction of this summer’s blockbusters: city blocks flattened, heads crushed, all without a drop of… Continue reading
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The Return of Larry Summers?
Summers was a key actor in the Clinton economic team that pushed for bigger and less regulated banks. He was there for the repeal of Glass-Steagall. He was also among those hectoring Brooksley Born, when the then head of the… Continue reading
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Two Old Men Disputing – Rembrandt
Related articles Power of Art: Rembrandt (keithwaynebrown.com) Who was Rembrandt van Rijn? (thenewstribe.com) Rembrandt show for National Gallery (bbc.co.uk) Rembrandt portrait study (erikvanelven.blogspot.com) Rembrandt van Rijn’s 407th Birthday Google Doodle (doodlecollect.wordpress.com) Continue reading
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Asoka – Tagore
I was looking for the artwork of Rabindranath Tagore and ran across the work of this earlier Indian artist, Abanindranath Tagore (1871 – 1951). Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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