

Potential Victims
TIME Magazine published a big cover recently: Pete Buttigieg and his partner smiling in front of a house with the words FIRST FAMILY written in massive, serif font in front of them. It's a lovely sentiment, but it's not going to last long. Not with the Elections Monster back out there. This is a scene in the early part of the horror movie when everything seems right: here is the pretty couple that everyone loves at school smiling for their prom portraits. This is the stage of


May Card-a-Month: Ancient Italian
It's May, definitely in the top five of all months, co-hosted by Taurus and Gemini. For this month, I used a deck that feels as lush as May feels: the Ancient Italian Tarot (Lo Scarabeo). The Ancient Italian deck is reproduction of a clone of the Tarocco Soprafino from the early 1800s, so calling this deck "ancient" is a stretch. Naming conventions aside, it's a beautiful deck. There's a clear identification with the Marseilles, especially when you look at the court cards, bu