Still Life Around a Plate of Onions (1889)

Have you looked at Vincent van Gogh’s paintings lately?

This one was painted a year before he died. Have you read his letters?

You know, of course, he died without selling a painting, then Theo died,

and it was up to Theo’s widow to keep the brothers’ joint effort alive.

Supreme Court decides corporations need free speech too.

May whiplash politicians. Haiti! Let’s hear it for

the Red Cross, and other not-for-profit charities.

Friends of Hookworm. With friends like that,

who needs enemies? With friends like that, we do.

Captain Charlie is not our friend.