Peter Fend

[Mark D. Levine @MarkLevineNYC]

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.

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

Mass market much better than art market.

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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.

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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.

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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.

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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.

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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

[Peter Fend @PeterFend]

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"