Ruth Frick O'Brien

Category: Main Stream Media

  • protest politics

    protest politics

    Any one who knows me knows I’m rather persistent when it comes to physicał protests.

    Anyone who really knows me knows if and why i ‘show’-up, for a protest or stage one with my Fred or follow my fearless sons, can figure out these photos.The where and when.

    Too decide is an ordeal.

    It’s always an ordeal, or better yet a calculation to determine if my physical body can “take it.”

    When I arrived at CUNY I had a workplace injury as University of Denver (DU) –Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI), I taught and published only that. I was the “negative” example, if you will.

    No doubt about it!

    How (not why because too obvious) is the question.

    HOW is so much harder, though potentially counter-intuitive then way more interesting. Like ” “disinterest” not rational self-interest.

    Indeed, I get tired hearing either the why — the justification disguised or ʼframedʼ as I write in at least one book racialized – en-cultured or -en-appropriated (Penelope). And if you wanna play the game, select 2 ids please. It is only fair Rudi.

    What is my MO? Mother Courage or Reckless Ruthje? I love to name and to have acronyms like TAP (new-ish) and PRISM. I asked for over 23 years how a Germanic language like Dutch did not soften my name nor Ruudʼs. Happy to catch up with Gradi during the holidays. It is her cennential all year, after all.RPM taught me a lot about what radically changes meaning in transliteration. Being “lost in translation – is too obvious. Cultures are akin to climate(s). Get it?

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  • Heretic . . .

    Heretic . . .

    “This-ing and/or “that-ing”
    https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/h/heretical-thought-ht/?cc=us&lang=en&
    Upright Polis, not Police

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_O%27Brien

    Just in. And I am trying to have a news-less day. But my mini(computer) that is is too observant. “Grr”

    Death of Democracy

    The title is”How Disinformation Splintered and Became More Intractable” in the New York Times the website webpage version of course.

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  • /Control?/Resist?!?/Bodies_in_Revolt*

    /Control?/Resist?!?/Bodies_in_Revolt*

    This was written before the ADAAA was passed in 2008 as President George W. Bush (43, not 41) with Routledge, 2005 and sold as chapters or I can send PDFs per requests (robrien@gc.cuny.edu within each semester (approximately September to December and February to May) each year. I only have select chapters.

    Finally, Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act (USA: Oxford University Press, 2004)

    Crippled Justice: The History of Disability in the Workplace (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, October 2001).

    https://www.hulu.com/watch/88ceaa35-dea2-49de-9985-8993d49574a0

    https://press.princeton.edu/series/the-public-square

    Writing Politics inspired both Voices from the Edge and the Public Square (PS) by PUP in Princeton, New Jersey)

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  • Accidentally,NOT,on purpose and/OR is it a porpoise

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  • Twists, Turns, and then Twists again: The Annals of the Proxies between Two State (read nation-states) Agencies — the American Presidency vs. the British monarchy

    Oh please?!*&^ Meghan of Montecito. Or is it Megan of Montecito? You tell me? Having grown up and come of age in the county that houses this supposed woman of Montecito, I think it is no less than outrageous.  Why?  Because of all the work that all the proxies must do.  Full disclosure: I have relatives in Montecito, my first sleep-over restaurant gala was in Santa Barbara (SB), I grew up on the beaches of SB, and decades later I was there for part of my COVID-isolation travels and adventures, when I got to renew my friendship with a Hope Ranch High School sister (we’d gone to Claremont Men’s College together before they shoved the M of McKenna in there).  Phew.  This friend told me that the best thing about Montecito is not the fully-in-view polo park, nor even the real SB ranch that was ranched by the fake-ranch movie-star president (yes, RR, not TR nor FDR).  Phew again.  Please.  I have no problem about reporting on the British monarchy versus Meghan and Megan, the proxy (singular) for all of the colonial and United States of America since Pocahontas.  Yep, I mean Meghan and Megan of Montecito and/or Hillary of FOB and BOB, or really FOB.

    Let me use this to get more twists and turns in, something akin to the “Ana-baptists,” and by Ana I don’t meant those Santa Anna winds but rather the reference here to John Winthrop of, yes, you called it (if you remember it from your civics class), City on a Hill or my American Political Thought and/or American Political Development seminars and what I today refer to as APP, not APT + APD -AS = APP.^

    I’m waiting for Michelle (Obama) to work with or support Meghan or Megan of Montecito, really, though it is actually Ronald Reagan’s stage screen in the SB county-side as well as being backed up to Kevin’s Kern, and yes, that’s potential Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy’s Kern of Kern County.

    Now, where did I go next with FHO? Well that was Tejon Ranch, where Fred remarked: Did we really have to go back to that county where everyone “hated” (okay, banished) me? We did 🙂 And we enjoyed it, though not for all the reasons one, and that’s the Queen English’s “one” would understand.

    Viewing and Reading Recommendations — check out Princess’ Di’s “authenticity”

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