Who had bubonic plague on their bingo card this year?

As the Mad Dean explains,

“The Vermin only teaze and pinch
Their Foes superior by an Inch.
So, Nat’ralists observe, a Flea
Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey,
And these have smaller yet to bite ‘em,
And so proceed ad infinitum…”

14 years ago, I created a sort of seamless collage of 18th and 19th century engravings entitled “Trepanation,” a surgical procedure in which a hole is bored through the skull, often to relieve pressure from a brain hemorrhage or inflammation. Here is the remake, many many many years later.

If we’re going back to a sovereigntist mercantilism model of state power, can I at least get big-bellied tall ship to float around the world? I’m done with the landlubber life. If we’re doing shit white people like to the detriment of everyone, I want a big boat and unimpeded range of the high seas…

As the social internet fragments across a myriad of platforms, each with its peculiar limitation on expression, I’ve decided I’m just going to write on all of them using a lowest common denominator four-page letter format scrawled in my carpal-tunnel and trigger-finger labored hand.

For more information in English and Spanish visit aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights

Para más información en inglés y español, visita aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights

“We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in place of reality.”

I may be a terrible person (the jury is still out). Anyway, ever since I saw this phrase a few days ago it has been tumbling rent-free through my head. So, I made a cute thing about it.