The high: "The artist Nan Goldin and around 100 fellow demonstrators threw pill bottles into the moat surrounding an ancient Egyptian temple at the Metropolitan Museum in New York on Saturday, to protest sponsorship by the family that owns one of the largest makers of opioids. The pill bottles had been labeled by the protesters to say “prescribed to you by the Sackler Family”. The Sackler family wholly owns Purdue Pharma, which makes the prescription painkiller OxyContin. In 1974, the family paid for the Sackler Wing at the Met, in which the 2,000-year-old Temple of Dendur stands.Goldin, who recently recovered from a near-fatal addiction to OxyContin, led the protest. 'Shame!' she shouted. 'As artists and activists we demand funding for treatment: 150 people will die today, 10 while we are standing here, from drug overdoses'" (The Guardian).

As artists, we demand....

The low: "'When I was in China and other places, by the way, I said, "Mr. President, do you have a drug problem?" "No, no, no, we do not,' Trump said. 'Big country. 1.4 billion people, right? Not much of a drug problem... I said what do you attribute that to? "Well, the death penalty." Hey, if you are a drug dealer and you know you are going to get caught and you know that you are going to kill people... You're killing our kids.... But if you go to Singapore, I said, "Mr. President, what happens with your drugs?" "We don't have a problem"... I said "what do you mean no problem?" "We have a zero tolerance policy." What does that mean? "That means if we catch a drug dealer, death penalty,"' Trump said to applause.... 'A drug dealer will kill 2,000, 3,000, 5,000 people during the course of his or her life... You can kill thousands of people and go to jail for 30 days... They catch a drug dealer. They don't even put him in jail. Think of it. You kill one person, you get the death penalty in many states or you get life in prison. Think of it. You kill 5,000 people with drugs because you're smuggling them in and you're making a lot of money and people are dying and they don't even put you in jail. They don't do anything.'"  (The Hill).

Think of it! That is: let it fester in your rotting heart for a while, and we'll see what happens.