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The Barnes Brief: Friday, April 4, 2025
April 04, 2025
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Art of the Day

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  • Friday at 9ish pm eastern: Betting w/ Barnes AMA
  • Saturday Movie Night at 9 pm eastern: Val Kilmer Movie TBD
  • Sunday at 6 pm eastern: Viva & Barnes, Law for the People

Book Recommendation: The VBL book list, a humble 568 of them. An example: Kevin Phillips’ biography of President McKinley, a book enjoyed by President Trump.  https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/130921670-robert-barnes?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=vivabarneslaw

Art of the Day: The effusive ebullience of jazz, the colorful spirit the saxophone sings in its inventive riffs, the chic cool of a jazz club off an alley in Paris or hidden in a cave-like basement in Gotham or enveloped by the memory of history in New Orleans amongst the young folks’ revelry. The explosion of color in the art evinces that echoed memory of jazz clubs on a warm summer night, where everybody is a cool cat. In another life, I’d be a jazz drummer.

Wisdom of the Day: "It was the stage in which they were starting to lose what had been built up by the solid things: industry and physical commerce and agriculture and maritime industries. If we look at what happened to them, it's confirming the dangers of letting yourself get into this posture of thinking that you can provide services and finance to the world and that works. It never has." Kevin Phillips. 

 

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I. INTRODUCTION 
 
A. Art of the Da
  • To time travel, a stop along the bucket list of people and places would be the Paris of the Orient, the multi-cultural, nation-divided Shanghai of the 1930s, captured in the 2010 film Shanghai, filled with refugees from Russia & Germany, explorers and expats from Britian and America, nomads and globetrotters from the world of writers and gamblers alike, amidst the Chicago style skyline and horse-and-buggies, horseracing tracks and nightime jazz clubs, cabarets and concessions, stood Shanghai of the 1930s, a cultural crossroads of east and west like few others in world history, a place where jazz could thrive long into the night, dancing along the crossroads of country and history itself.    
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Art of the Day 
  • The Charles Bridge of Prague. Fond of bridges, I remember it well, having come down from Kafka Lane higher in the city, and a man on a bycicle literally barking into the wind, and thinking somehow that made sense on Kafka Lane. The ancient history, the brooding statues, the iconic stone arch, the hopeful singers peopling it’s passage, all made it my favorite part of Prague, and a place to revisit for hopeful thought in my memory’s vault. 
Wisdom of the Day
  • “It’s the bill of rights, not the bill of requests. Rights are not up for negotiations.” Thomas Massie. 
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  4. SCOTUS: Foreign Immunity https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-983_c07d.pdf
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Art of the Day 

  • The cowboy hat on a country fence in the country. Americana defined. Independence. Freedom. Conviction. The best traits of America captured in the yeoman farmer of Jeffersonian lore. The echoes of a country song about love and loss, heartbreak and hope, a whisper of the future amidst the distress of the day. The sun ain’t set yet. 
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