The last time the U.S. held a World's Fair, it went bankrupt. So why on Earth is Minnesota bidding for a future one? startribune.com/expo-2027-plan… by me for @StribOpinion cc @usaexpo2027 @bieparis Last week, @bieparis, the organization that selects World's Fair cities, visited Minnesota and noted that they'd seen "unanimous" support for the bid. That's troubling --- most folks in MN don't even know there's a bid, and among those who do, there's skepticism.

Re Get Back pt. 2 - whoever put that microphone in the flowerpot deserves a royal commendation. I almost fell out of my chair. You’ll have to watch. But something that’d been building - the vulnerability of John - emerges full on from that moment.

Re Get Back —- procrastinating Beatles may be the most illuminating - and moving - moments for me in part 1. The ideas that swirled when they weren’t even trying. So many “minor” unrecorded songs with absolutely peerless melodies, simply left on the floor.

Trump's threat to bomb cultural sites in Iran reminds of Major Corine Wegener, the US Army reservist assigned to assist after the looting of the Iraq Nat'l Museum in 2003. It was the most intense U.S. military effort to conserve culture since World War II: rakemag.com/2004/07/art-wa… In fact, the US Army's Civil Affairs division has had a slot for "Arts, Monuments, and Archives Managers" since WWII, when the so-called "monuments men" played a crucial role in saving the cultural heritage of Europe, incl "The Last Supper." See here: medium.com/history-and-po…

A long-ish thread on what happens when a major news outlet reports on a multi-billion dollar industry without bothering to look at industry data, first.

I am, of course, talking about the NYT's recent reporting on America's so-called recycling crisis. I'll start with this widely circulated March 16 story by @mcorkery5.
nytimes.com/2019/03/16/bus…