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March 31, 2021
Peak Bloom: 3000 Yoshino cherry trees. 109 years.
Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki and his wife in Washington on March 27, 1912. On that day, the couple presented the City of Washington with 3000 Japanese Yoshino cherry trees.
Peak bloom this year in DC—when approximately 70 percent or more of the blooms are open—was Sunday, March 28. The Yoshino blooms will hold up for another week.
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March 30, 2021
1498
“The Four Horsemen” from The Apocalypse (1498) by Albrecht Dürer
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March 21, 2021
Is this what you do with your time?
I can hardly believe I’ve written this but here it is.
American racism in all its forms will likely decrease—and in leaps and bounds—when our morally superior mainstream media stops talking about it, seeking it out, seeing it everywhere, writing and broadcasting about it and, frankly, in effect encouraging it so it can have something to do. The press in the last half-decade especially has insulted our intelligence. The American people aren’t the main problem. Media is. And it’s time for media to stop the largely false, unproductive and prophecy-fulfilling narrative it keeps gleefully peddling. American mainstream news was once my hero. It is now divisive in the extreme. It does not lead. It has become a backward kid that needs a refresher in journalism, fair play and real freedom of speech.
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March 08, 2021
Jurywork
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
--Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
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