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While the whole piece is great, Doc, the Yayoi Kusama Bauhaus portion is priceless. If you added some inane reference to Clement Greenberg, you could probably get it published.

In repetition, it’s hard not to say there has been exuberance, oversimplification and combining of stories, shading of facts and context, by those celebrating, and those minimizing, Dr. Russell Nelson’s role in the development of the heart lung machine used in open heart surgery, and other advancem...

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Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:39 pm

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Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:22 pm

I’m sure you know that I’m joking, Chap.

Oh, I hoped you were joking. But on this board one can never be quite sure ...

And I don’t really hate Tokyo. I’m sad as to what it lost. Modern and new are not always the answers.

The city was bombed out during WWII and was rebuilt in the years immediately following the war. Now, it's all uniform, concrete weariness. I love Japan, I love big cities, I hate Tokyo. If the city is an example of what libertarians are going to bring once they become our overlords, I'll go live in...

This is an interesting point, Gad. And I agree that zoning laws are at the root of the US housing crisis. In the US, we've carefully crafted the housing hell that we've forced a great number of our people to endure. That said, I can't help but comment on the gray blandness that is Tokyo. The city wa...

And to malkie for catching it.

My favorite Steve Densley piece is the one where he uses to his mad skills as an art critic to dis both Picasso and the Church's critics. Though he mentions neither by name, he compares Picasso's masterpiece, Guernica , to Rembrandt's Landscape with a Stone Bridge . https://www.pablopicasso.org/imag...

Ironically, I was pointed to this TED talk from a video that popped up in my YouTube recommendations from a survival channel. https://youtu.be/Yilgr2SJ3xQ?si=bW3TvfVg2NqSoAxg The topic is what factors predict political unrest and, notably, who is typically behind civil wars when they break out. It'...

My hope would be to see Trump elected and then liberals would ask for a national divorce. No need for Trump to be elected. Your divorce has been granted. Feel free to leave the country. From what you’ve said, you don’t want to contribute to it, and you hate both what America was and what it has bec...