It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Friday, March 11, 2016

From LootedArt.com

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Last week Germany’s Minister of Culture,  Monika Grütters,
made the astonishing statement that the Advisory Commission
that issues recommendations for questions
of allegedly Nazi-looted art in German museums
would not be revised to include
 a member of the Jewish community
because that Jewish member
“would be the only voice who would be prejudiced.” 

The statement was not idle gossip,
it was to the New York Times,
which was writing a feature piece about her.

This was a shockingly tone-deaf statement
for a German cabinet member to make.

Even in a vacuum, it is logically indefensible; 
why would a Jewish member be more biased
than a German member (about which she had no objection). 

And, of course, it is not a vacuum—
we are talking about Germany.

9 March 2016

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