Ken Briodagh

Atheist, Concerned citizen, Journalist, Performer, Technologist, Writer/Editor

KENNETH BRIODAGH Social Media Manager / Writer / Editor SUMMARY: • Professionally: online and print writer, manager and editor for diverse media. • Personally: I don't take many things very seriously, except for whisky and social liberty Current: Web Content Editor, Social Media Manager, Senior Writer Event Marketer Magazine, Red 7 Media, Norwalk, CT ● Responsible for Event Marketer magazine’s social-media presence and content creation for EventMarketer.com. ● Write, edit and produce Event Marketer’s bi-weekly e-newsletter, EMBuzz, which goes to a controlled circulation of 25,000. ● Serve as a featured speaker, presenter and host of Webinar series on social media and experiential marketing topics. Past: Freelance Writer/Columnist ● Numerous white papers in the technology marketing and health care industries ● Annual report, marketing materials and ad copy for non-profit community theatre ● Weekly community columns "Brimstone and Blarney" and "Soapbox Commando" Education: B.A., English; Minor in Writing, University of Maine, Machias, ME

I'm a writer, actor, web crawler, and libertarian socialist; a lover of books and e-readers, playing Wii and being outdoors, consensus and argument.

The founding fathers were not psychic. They could never have foreseen the nation as it exists today. They wrote the constitution and original congressional bylaws and electoral laws to be functional for a mostly illiterate, short-lived and recently subject nation. Many of those specific precepts are now obsolete and have to be removed and/or revised in order for us to be a well-governed society again. The problem is that our "leaders" are interested only in letter of the law (if that) and not at all in the spirit of what was the original purpose of the nation. To allow lawyers to read the Constitution as if it is a contract is a travesty to what it was meant to be, in my opinion. It is not a contract. It is a philosophical manifesto, especially when partnered with the Declaration of Independence and should be treated as the living, breathing thing it could have been. We should read it like we read philosophy, with an eye to meaning and purpose rather than syntax and jurisprudence.