Month: June 2020

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The COVID pandemic is absolutely decimating the museum world. Most of these institutions, poorly funded and top-heavy with corporate world administrators before this, are also dependent upon admissions for funding and when you have no admissions, you have no income. Layoffs and furloughs are rampant. Some suggest that nearly half of museums may permanently close. […]

Ah Toy

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On June 25, 2020

Fascinating and excellent essay about Ah Toy, the Chinese brothel madam in Gold Rush San Francisco, and the anti-Asian racism that impacted her long life in California. An excerpt: In time, however, o

Seems About Right

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On June 25, 2020

When it comes to typographical errors and the like – at least on the web – I’m usually a ‘glass houses meet stones’ type. One of the symptoms of my ADHD is that I usually have to

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What Are You Gonna Do

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On June 25, 2020
Bill Barr has absolutely disgraced his office in ways that were eminently predictable, but because the Republican Party is as thoroughly corrupt as its Attorney General there’s nothing that can be done about it: A federal prosecutor’s testimony Wednesday that he was pressed by supervisors to offer a more lenient sentencing recommendation for a friend […]
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