I'm really fascinated by this single photo of Obama with new Afghan commander McChrystal (of black ops fame) in the Oval Office offered up by Pete Souza on the WH Flickr stream.
Continue ReadingTacking right at Annapolis just before Memorial Day weekend, Obama couldn't get better pictures.
Continue ReadingWhat's fundamentally off about the latest New Yorker cover (showing an elephant considering plastic surgery) is the notion that the GOP's problems are largely cosmetic.
Continue ReadingThe image, by WAPO's fine Washington photographer, Melina Mara, is one of the more insightful photographed yesterday of the supposed-debate between Obama and the former shadow-President.
Continue ReadingTake a look at what CNN, and other media orgs are doing today -- especially visually. They are taking Obama's major speech on terrorism and Dick Cheney's speech at the American Enterprise Institute and putting both men a on level playing field.
Continue ReadingNotice how the same toy guns that seem harmless in the photo alongside the bus appear threateningly dangerous in the bottom image.
Continue ReadingIt's a clever image on the newswire, showing FBI Director Meuller testifying before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday.
Continue ReadingRight off the bat, how unusual is it to see Cheney without either the smirk or that smug little smile?
Continue ReadingIt seemed noteworthy today Obama was having a moment of solidarity with United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger while Ford CEO Alan Mulally, far right, was clapping enthusiatically in response.
Continue ReadingWhat makes me almost ill looking at this little boy playing with a Gatling gun during an Air Force air show is that I can't tell how much irony was intended.
Continue ReadingWhile Obama held the line yesterday, emphasizing the need for a Palestinian state and improved relations with Iran, Israel PR frames Obama as leaving Netanyahu in the lurch.
Continue ReadingBesides the white roses and those well broadcast pro-life mortarboards with the cross-separated infant feet (intended to signify an aborted fetus, I've repeatedly read) was the scene -- front-and-center at the so-called "alternative commencement ceremony" -- of the honest-to-God, tummy-tending, out-to-here Notre Dame pregnant student.
Continue ReadingHere's the first Newsweek cover after the post-newsmagazine, commentary-over-reporting, up-scale make-over.
Continue ReadingI found this a clever visual commentary by Brooks Kraft, illustrating the Republican Party reduced to midgets.
Continue ReadingA few days ago, I warned of the Administration starting to visually mimic the militarist BushCo. out of concern for its image on national security and the Afghan war....
Continue ReadingPope speaks during his visit to the Aida refugee camp with the Israeli separation wall in the background
Continue ReadingI found this photo (of an Afghan widow receiving reparation money for a U.S. air strike) just devastating
Continue ReadingOver the past two days, there has been a lot of debate about the pros and cons of releasing photo documentation of the Bush Administration's torture regime. My thought was to consider the issue in the context of a specific example.
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