The Ridiculous $19 Trillion Economy Of The US -- Mark Perry - May 14, 2017

Mark Perry does this every once in a awhile, and I love it:

Suggestion:

• Texas: Saudi Arabia
• North Dakota: Libya
• Oklahoma: Kuwait

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Almost Everyone Was A Kramden

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The Art Page

Wow, wow, wow! The Kimbell Art Museum in Ft Worth has another special exhibition, the Phillips Collection.

From the catalogue:

• Featuring paintings by Impressionists and Post-Impressionists such as Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edouard Vuillard; twentieth-century modernists Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and Pablo Picasso; American nineteenth-century painters Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler; and figures of twentieth-century American modernism such as Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keefe, and Mark Rothko, ...

From wiki:

... opened in 1921, the Phillips Collection is America's first museum of modern art.

And it's a special exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum, opening today, Mother's Day, and running through August 13, 2017.