Michael Chertoff's Indetectable-to-the-Media Trouser Snake
What does Michael Chertoff’s snake know that the mainstream U.S. media has chosen to ignore?
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Mediation Fails
Fourth post of photographer Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series from West Virginia on mountaintop removal by coal companies.
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Thoughts on the Palin NYT Mag Cover: Like She’s So "Homemade"
2. Hmm, 8 out of 10 Team Mamma Grizzly members are ... Poppa Grizzlies.
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Same Old (Not Much) Song and Dance
What we're seeing in these faces, as the parties dig in for a session of deck chair rearrangement, is the stress of the gridlock and abject pettiness as a picture broadcast to the American people.
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God Bless Dubya’s Library (and What’s Left of Cheney)
The fact that the logo of the Bush Library (sort of a paradoxical concept in itself), represents a melding of the flag and the bible is something of a parting shot for all posterity.
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Gay Rights and the Killing Fields
While still struggling to wrap my head around the idea that Americans could take an American war for granted, I also marvel at the day-to-day compromise involved in fighting for a more humanistic killing machine.
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Mingo Slurry
Third post of photographer Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series from West Virginia on mountaintop removal by coal companies.
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Foot of the Buddha
What makes the photos of Obama's visit to the Great Buddha statue in Kamakura so arresting on the last day of his Asia trip is the dramatic contrast between the symbolism of the statue and the all-out post-midterm hell awaiting him back in D.C.
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Your Turn: Hold the Mayo
BagReaders respond to this scene from Sarah Palin's reality TV show.
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Obama the Invalid
Beyond the analogy of America as a car stuck in a ditch, the harsh photo represents Obama as the guy who was in the car when it got totaled.
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Nina Berman: Poisoned While Deployed
Veterans Day: Nina Berman's reportage of Iraq veterans suffering from illnesses attributed to toxic exposure at Army Burn Pits.
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TIME’s Boehner: The Seducer
Sorry for the inundation if you're approaching or have already hit your Boehner fill, but tracking these covers, and examining the "it boy" treatment, is instructive for us to truly understand how a Republican Party coronation is taking place.
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Fore Sale: Boehner's Day One
John Boehner set the early symbolic tone for the new Congress by showing up for his first Capitol Hill press conference as Speaker yesterday not just wearing a sweater, but a country club sweater. ...But it gets even better.
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Waterboarding Saved London
Here's my mark-up of the The Times' full page Bush make-over.
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Your Turn: The Boehner-Obama Bump
BagReaders weigh in on Barry Blitt's new New Yorker Obama - Boehner Oval Office fist bump cover. (...Or, is it the Blitt Obama fist bump do over?)
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Kicking off Bush Week with Mom, Baseball (and the Brother or Sister He Never Had)
How does NBC lead off "Bush Week" as the network that scored the kick-off interview to the week long marathon of Bush re-entry and reconstitution? With baseball, Texas, a focus on ancient history, a vivid painting of radical anti-abortion imagery and Mom.
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Obama in Brown-Skinned Land
Here we go with the right-wing looking to get the bowing-thing rolling again. An African-American president makes a friendly little gesture to a foreign leader, and ... well, you know.
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The Pic from Mumbai
The measure of the post-midterm trip is the ability to successfully change the subject.
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