Michael Savage

@cjsnowdon The problem is obviously *drinking*, not just *drinking alcohol*. Osmosis is the way forward.

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@HistoryBoomer Hey, even Savages like museums.

"we find museums to be oppressively boring" Monsters. I have found some new arch-nemeses. (I just came back from Italy and in 9 days saw 11 museums and 9 churches with art. In New York, I'm a regular at the Met and an irregular at 3 other museums, because I'm not a savage.)

Yet another study finds that moderate drinking is good for your health. The fake controversy about this is only been kept alive by charlatans from the temperance lobby and grifting American influencers. acc.org/About-ACC/Pres…

We spent $15,000 on billboards targeting one person: the guy controlling all the chemical spend at a saltwater disposal company in Texas. We mapped his commute and bought every billboard between his house and the oil field. When we finally called, he said "I see your billboards everywhere." That landed us our first oil field contract. At the time our entire operation was a $10,000 reactor built from PVC pipes from Home Depot, turning corn sugar into industrial chemicals. People keep trying to throw it away. It still works. That leaking reactor started a multibillion-dollar company. @ycombinator visited our plant in Houston. The original PVC reactor is still on the floor next to the Bioforge.

@BenRamanauskas That'll change Theydon Bois to Theydon Grrrls in revenge.

They should change the name of Milton Keynes to Milton Friedman

@HistoryBoomer Good to see Steen and Caillebotte, even if you've made some mistakes ;-)

So people can pick on something other than my crime in NYC views, here are my fave painters. They are better than all your favorites. Caravaggio Botticelli Bosch Caillebotte Steen Raphael Hokusai Rembrandt Goya De La Tour Magritte Grosz El Greco Hopper Hart Benton Van Eyck

@JustineBrian School is hell for a lot of kids at the ends of the ability spectrum. Make it nicer should be a target, too.

@GrumpyArt That’s definitely you talking ☺️ Kids needs to be directed to study - left to their own devices most won’t until they begin to glean it’s too late (not such thing, but you get the point). YOU may have functioned well in this setup, most kids won’t?

I'm OK with this. More teachers, more one-on-one tuition. Perhaps we can also run with much smaller classes. x.com/mark_bauerlein…

@JustineBrian Sure, that's why I say give it a go and find out how many. And let them study at their own pace in streamed groups, rather than to arbitrary hoops that are too stretching for some and too easy for others.

@JustineBrian Here's one that's self-serving for the old me: let kids self-study at their own pace for as long as they meet minimum defined standards. Takes out a chunk of kids from direct instruction immediately and frees teachers to focus more efficiently.

@GrumpyArt Possibly not as great as a poorly educated next generation?

@JustineBrian Link between spending and outcome is weak. It's not where I'd start on improving standards.

@JustineBrian Probably a false economy.

@GrumpyArt Government consultants.

🚨NEW: As much as Britain's right-wing press might like to lambast the Woke takeover of The Museum, the really offensive part of the visitor experience is just how naff it all is. @LemanWalters argues. READ: pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/britains-mus…

@GuyCaballero3 @olivertraldi We can't know exactly, but maybe he was just a young and very junior employee looking for a girlfriend. That shouldn't be career ending.

@olivertraldi @GrumpyArt Having “lots of girlfriends” among your colleagues is profoundly stupid and displays poor judgment.

Insane article. In 2020 the New York Times ran five pieces on romantic complaints about an Erie, Pennsylvania art museum exec making $70k a year after they had been rejected by "The Art Newspaper" for lack of evidence. He had never been accused of sexual harassment on the job.

Needless to say, the "it's just a bit of fun" > "it's gone viral!" > "playing to the kids really works" > "being serious and detailed won't appeal to them any more" > "lets fund only the lowest common denominator" pipeline is real, whether or you not you find this a funny video.

@AntigoneJournal Well said. She does belong on the heights - a wise and respected curator. But museum culture pushing even the best off the ledge.

Sheep have a habit of descending steep crags to a ledge where they see good grass. They then find it impossible to climb back up to where they belong. Marooned and cragfast they eventually die or need external rescue. Thoughts prompted by this absurd trend in museums & galleries.

@AntigoneJournal @HannahWardEdu I'm a little over 10k. #FiveFigureClub

@HannahWardEdu 20k or thereabouts.

How does your home library stack up? In 2023 YouGov surveyed 29,000 Americans to see how many books they have in their homes. The results were disappointing to say the least. - 0 books: 9% (no books AT ALL) - 1–10 books: 20% - 11–25 books: 14% - 26–50 books: 13% - 51–100 books: 12% - 101–200 books: 10% - 201–500 books: 7% - 501–1,000 books: 4% - More than 1,000 books: 3%

Oxford don Isaiah Berlin once caught wind of two overeager undergraduates who were planning to drop everything and travel to Hungary to be swept up in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. This is what he told them: “I lectured them both on the fact that one must not take oneself so seriously, that undergraduates are undergraduates, that one must not ask oneself at every return whether one is fulfilling one’s purpose here or should be somewhere else, and one must just carry on with whatever one is doing without feeling that the safety and happiness of the world depends upon one’s position, or that one has some special calling or mission.”

@McFaul I have some sympathy. But also have some sympathy with his students who called him 'Deadly Hedley Bullshit'. Martin Wight was better.

I did go to school at Oxford and was influenced by the liberal British school of IR

Call me old fashioned but I still believe that morality and values should play a role in the formulation and execution of US foreign policy.