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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: ‘Commissioner of Sewers’ (dangerousminds.net) A Word in Your Era: William…
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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 the two participants were reversed, Trayvon Martin already would have…
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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 open) is about embracing a particular form of humility. For…
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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, whatever the rights or wrongs, ‘our own fault’. We can’t help…
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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 the incidence of obesity and of major chronic diseases and…
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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 a Philadelphia hospital does : $79,007 Portion of North American doctors who…
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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.
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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 humiliation. Knowing when to stop, Keep away danger. Thus, forever…
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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 good documentaries on my favorite artists, I thought I might…
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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 Wenlong & Keith Wayne Brown, ©2013. [1] Literally the term…
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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 of the attackers were sons of Robert Harris, the wrestling…
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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 the House when Steve King and the flying-monkey caucus pretty…
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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
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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 with people and find items and people of similar interests.…
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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 on another plane of existence and i think there is…
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What’s your favorite painting by Van Gogh?
Originally posted on keys 2 change: Moulin de blute-fin This is one of my favorite paintings ever done by Van Gogh. Pictured is a windmill in Montmartre, France where he spent a good deal of time not only because he loved the scenery and the people, but also because it was…
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