Ocasio-Cortez theme song: "Don't know much about history, don't know much about biology, but I do know 1 and 1 are 2, and that I love you"

When a business caller says "You know" more than 3 times in a 5-minute call, I end the call.

Why do male professors often grow beards? To hide? Is being a professor largely about hiding? It's surely about hoarding?

China VP Wang Qishan at Davos says all UN member state frontiers should remain unchanged, perpetuating Western colonialism's dividing up.

Do people sound stupid on purpose to avoid being feared, or disliked?

Scary to me, in "figuring out" an anti-nuclear defense: how many variables there are; how I can't do more than very-rough math. So it's art.

Nicholas Logsdail says that I am "paranoid". What's published 1987, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2017, and 3 trials in 1998, shows I'm not so enough.

Reading of The New Yorker, NY Times, FT, WSJ encourages repose, or worse, an attitude of "protest" at this or that, but no solution actions.

Are all 2020 candidates running to be chief bursar of the cabin crew?

If I had been in Genoa in August, as I requested of many in the art world, the Italy BRI deal would not have happened.

DOJ investigates some of the students who got "in". Actress Lori pleads not guilty: defiant. "Sorry" they got caught.

U of Chicago $: Rockefeller oil. Duke $: tobacco. Stanford $: RRs w/ Chinese/Irish labor. FDR $: opium trade. Nice!

The lawyers who included Harlem housing projects inside Hudson Yards to get $1.2 B in Fed funds should go to prison.

Like the subway braker Isaiah Thompson, Jeff Bezos built a career on shutting down customer business deals and selling swipes instead.

Collusion Schmollusion: put Putin in the White House, and Trump in the Kremlin: they both take on China.

Newspeak. Art is the most controlled. Avant-garde most derriere-garde. 'Collaborative Projects' not so.

Mass market much better than art market.

The lag time for the avant-garde's innovations: 100 years. In some cases. Forever.

The Leisure Class, in all its forms, maintains the status quo. Only a national disaster can dislodge it.

Michigan has just started reporting on coronavirus cases by race. African Americans are 14% of that state's population but 40% of deaths. This pandemic is reflecting--and exacerbating--inequality. NYC should publish this data as well, so we get the picture here.