@SarahjevsEvans Thank you so much for Howard Kevin's Welsh Heatwave painting, to add to my little collection of prints and pics 😆 I'm thinking of doing an Evans portrait wall, that's not weird is it!?
There are a lot more climate and environmental protection success stories than most people know. Ozone layer hole is shrinking, acid rain and smog are way down, water is cleaner.
I think it would help environmental advocates to focus on these more instead of always dooming.
'Two Women at a Table,' Richard Diebenkorn painted this picture in 1963. He wrote of his early work: 'I embraced Hopper completely, it was his use of light and shade, saturated with mood and its austerity; it was the kind of work I wanted to paint.'
In general, the problem with all the recent talk of “viewpoint diversity” as the cure for the monoculture of the university is this:
(1) everyone thinks that there must be some limits of professional competence to viewpoint diversity (no flat-earth types in the geography department please);
(2) academic progressives overwhelmingly hold that views like “men cannot get pregnant” are as inadmissible as believing in a flat earth.
Hence they are ultimately unable to reform themselves, at least at the department level. There must be thorough reconstruction from above or from outside.
It's funny, though. My group, New England Women's Solidarity, wrote to Dr. Shah and all of the other candidates for Maine governor and the Maine congressional races about the incarcerated women at the Maine Correctional Center who say they're being sexually threatened and abused by male inmates who are in the women's prison because they claim to 'identify' as women.
We asked them all to support these traumatized women. Not one Democratic candidate, including Dr. Shah, responded to us.
They're all crying 'Believe all women!' again now that it's politically expedient, but when we ask them to believe the women in Maine prisons, they suddenly go silent.
"Platner’s story is not the Amadeus narrative of a brilliant mind in a flawed person; it’s the Limp Bizkit narrative of a flawed person whose work is also complete shit." (link to article in next tweet)
Here in Maine, we're waiting with bated breath for Platner to drop out, but also for somebody to rescue this seagull from the roof of Victoria Mansion.
Poor thing pierced its wing on the spire 2 days ago & there's no hatch to the roof. Firefighters tried to reach it by ladder but the roof is too high and has power lines in front of it.
Surely some construction business has an aerial ladder truck and can do something before it dies? There was a parade of children out in front today chanting #SaveTheBird
Man, I can't believe the candidate with the Nazi tattoo who bragged about jacking off in porta-potties and allegedly said he wanted to rape home invaders ("but not in a gay way")...is also allegedly rapey. It's always the ones you most suspect.
Periodic reminder that the claim that if you want to be represented by working class people or military veterans then you have to put up with the sort of flaws that Platner has on display represents a terrible libel of working class people and military veterans.