Anyway, I'm teaching my older kid to play the recorder. So I guess this is a way of saying sorry to the neighbors?

I would be so, so happy if my kids got to got to a school that had the funding for art classes (which are cheaper imo) let alone music.

Again, I'm an art major. Last month I learned that the marble work in a specific area of Italy follows the same 5 color palette (black, cream, grey, red and white) no matter which monument you visit. THAT is where my mind should be right now.

But instead: will food be safe next year?

Knowing that this is all nonsense hasn't helped stop any of the nonsense so far ... but ffs, can we at least talk about why the spin is a lie? Can like a major news channel or publication talk about this?

So this whole natural food dyes thing requires absolute trust in the US food manufacturing industry to voluntarily self-police their products to the low, low bar of not poisoning people.

No one has that trust, obviously.

So, sure. It's probably fine to replace Red 40 with beet juice and stop using Citrus Red 2 to make your orange peels extra vibrant. But no one is going to be employed to open one box in every crate of cereal to check that all those red loops are actually made with beet juice and not madder root.

This is why we have protein powders that cost $60 for a 2 week supply, constant articles about what rando supplements were full of mercury this month, and homeopathy. And essential oils, a pyramid industry that has bankrupted so, so many desperate women in the US.

Natural dyes are an unregulated area of the food industry in the US. Two massive problems with this.

1 - Is there lead in them thar natural red dye? Who knows?

2 - the last big push to deregulate a consumer product in the US was Orrin Hatch making supplements a food instead of a medicine.

Facists have terrible media literacy. Or they really do want to eat people.

Like 'proud boys' is after a song about being gay? Like the Punisher is about a guy who specifically hunts corrupt le?

This is the picture that did it. This is a quick draw of a moving target, that's amazing enough, but you can also feel in the picture what the artist thought and felt about this man. That's a spark in art that can't be taught, and makes the difference between an expert and a master.

Obviously his technical skill is incredible, but what makes a truly great artist is the feeling they captured. When I saw his work in the Emmett Till exhibit in the Chicago History Museum, I stopped dead.

Franklin McMahon was an illustrative reporter working for Life Magazine when he was in the courtroom covering the trial of Emmett Till's murderers. He's been published almost nowhere that's available now, but you'll can see a lot of his quick draws here.