Your Turn: Looking at the New Cigarette Health Warnings
I'm interested in how you read the graphic cigarette health warnings (both individually and collectively) released today by the FDA.
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Ha! Ha! Being Worked to Death
The fact anyone would dare question the American work ethic, this ideal locked in the '50's, is where the slapstick comes in now.
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Cool Pics from Failing States
FP has a penchant for futility rankings accompanied by like-minded slideshows.
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The Golf Summit
As the first African-American president, one with the foreign name who rode into Washington with the supposedly liberal pedigree, Obama's fascination with golf, and particularly, golf photo ops (yeah, what happened to those bball games?) can be seen to reassure conservatives and and the establishment.
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Red Scarves On Blair Mountain
Close to 1000 supporters marched to abolish mountaintop removal coal mining and to re-list Blair Mountain on the National Historic Registry. They retraced the route coal miners walked in 1921 when they clashed with mine operators and the federal government in what was the largest armed uprising in the...
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The Riot Kiss
I'm confident this wasn't staged and I'm confident it wasn't amorous, either. But then, the much more fascinating question to me is: why is the photo lighting up the internets?
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Boehner's Ciggy
If we already know Washington is a lot more like Hollywood than real life, this photo is a profoundly rare everyday visual example of it, helping us to actually see with our own eyes how little correlation there is between personality and behavior, and the communications and scenes were...
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Mark Ovaska in West Virginia: "Strip Mining Prevents Forest Fires"
Outside activists meet local hostility (partly from the union) as battle over mountaintop mining continues.
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What’s To See in the John Edwards Mug Shot
It’s not the shame-avoidant salesman’s smile that’s significant; we’ve seen that a million times.
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Topless Newt
It's one thing to bolt to the Isles effectively running off the whole staff, but to let the paparazzi steal a pic like this, too?
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TEPCO: Fukushima Workers In The Pink. (Oh, Sure.)
I'm really don't get the deafness of TEPCO's visual PR.
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Cheap Shots: 1st '12 GOP Debate. (Just Pointing 'Em Out.)
Thought Newt was going "Twitter-only."
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The Missionary
I was going to juxtapose this photo with a pic from the GOP debate in Iowa last night, but the forgettable (and forgettably early) scene wouldn't really have held up.
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Seeing Double in Afghanistan
If you think about it, this photo may be one answer to the question that hangs over the war in Afghanistan. That question is, what are we seeing, really?
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John Wayne’s Pom Poms
Miguel Angel Morenatti—AP You’re not in Kansas anymore, Champ. What I love about this photo (yeah, I used the word “love”) is how much fun it’s having with the European versus American perception of sexuality. Whereas many here in the States would take this, at a fast glance, as...
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Two Versions of the Same Syria – Turkey Border Photo. Does It Make a Difference?
I'm interested in whether the two versions, the cropped version versus the full-size, really effects the meaning of the photo and alters the visual news consumer's perception of the situation on the Syrian - Turkish border.
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On The First Post-Shooting Gabby Giffords Pix
Just like real life, today's photo of Gabby Giffords pulls us simultaneously in opposite directions, hope moving one way, reality the other.
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