The Blue Marble and Astronomical Audacity

Oh, you have a garden? That’ll be extra.

It won’t be long.

Monthly Solar Usage Bill

Authoritarian Update: 2017 – 2023

I posted the image on the left in 2017. Six years later, 2023, there’s been a development or two.

…the increasing breadth of authoritarianism…

Demographic Quicksand


18 minutes in Sketch Club.

Speaking of quicksand, take a look at this 1967 performance by comedian Jackie Vernon. Some of you will be old enough to remember Jackie Vernon and his use of state of the art technology in his deadpan stand-up act, which in this case revolves around quicksand.

#hawley toledo!

That look! Listen to what I thought he was hearing in his head. Go ahead, click on it.

Subterranean Echo Chamber

I’m sure this has already occurred to you:

Mutually Exclusive

I’m not going to explain this!

Last Breath

I did this one in December of 2020, but I decided not to post it on this illustroblog. However, now that we’re witnessing a few examples of people who, when they did have plenty of breath to spare, bloviated on and on about their absolute certainty that science, masks, election results, slavery, racism, and so forth were all hoaxes. A few of them – on their death beds – are now using their last breaths to help their fellow cult members wake the f*ck up before it’s too late. Meanwhile, the well-funded Stupidity and Extinction Campaign has raised more money than ever before!

For extra credit: Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy. The Nation

Do we underestimate extinction?

Do we deserve democracy?

Run that by me again, Joe.

Done on an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil in Sketch Club (see stats) and tweaked in iColorama.

Malignant Narcissist in the New Poison Ivy Garden

I saw an interview on TV with Jay Rosen, who had written a compelling piece, brilliantly arguing that 45’s plan is to have no plan at all! It’s the ultimate commission by omission in some ways, and it’s been diabolically effective on those who’ve sadly been marginalized from education and hope. He’s a sociopathic prankster, the magical answer to some people’s hollow prayers. Some say he has a mere learning disability; but no, it’s not that simple or  partial, as his own niece suggests in her book. He has an aversion to learning, and he’s become the patron saint for all those who decided to show up for the exam without cracking a book. He sows discord. He creates chaos. He will destroy others while he destroys himself.