BAG Archive Edition: The Great Unraveling
Mary Ann Smith collects some belongings after an eviction team removed the furniture from her foreclosed house. This is a scene of personal desolation.
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…And Back To The War
by Alan Chin This photograph, by AP photographer Khalid Mohammed, shows the aftermath of a massive truck bomb at Baghdad's Foreign Ministry, the battered white building of which is visible on the left. It was part of a coordinated series of attacks today which left at least 95 dead...
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BAG Archive Edition: Early Signs Of Sarah Palin's Radical Agenda?
What the photo telegraphs is that, even at this early stage of her local career, Palin is revealing herself as an activist officeholder with not just ambitious, but much larger and more radical ambitions.
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BAG Archive Edition: A Few Pointers About The L-Word
This BAG entry appeared at Huffington Post on August 23, 2007 after the Democrats swept the mid-term elections. It's interesting, among other things, to considering (debate?) how prescient this was.
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BAG Archive Edition: Can't See the Forest for the (Lack of) Trees
This post first appeared March 20, 2005 at the height of the Schiavo hysteria. It came to mind after several BAG comments on the health care protests questioned how wide and deep the opposition actually is.
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Archive Edition
The BAG has a line-up we hope you'll find interesting. Each day, we'll be featuring a post from the archive carefully chosen for its parallel to current themes, battles and headlines while also affording some longitudinal perspective.
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The Village Idiots
What's notable is the way it proposes an equivalency between Obama and the worst president ever.
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New York Mag's Selling (and Selling and Selling Out) of the President
New York Magazine's article about Obama's "media blitzkrieg" ("The Message Is the Message") ends u reinforcing one of the central and most simplistic attacks on Obama -- that he's overexposed.
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Woodstock's 40th. (Righteous!)
The Woodstock 40-year anniversary music festival offers the chance for reflection, nostalgia... and time out from the haters.
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Beneath the Las Vegas Strip
The photograph is of a couple who live in an underground flood channel beneath the Las Vegas strip.
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Do Health Care Naysayers Have "Too Much Skin" In The Game?
As right-wingers bear down with a blanket and vicious "just say no" to health care reform, is it fair game to challenge them for being overweight?
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About to be Glue (if not for Chuck Grassley!)
Doing back flips to distance himself from Obama and his own ID as one of the Senate Finance Committee's health care "gang of six," Grassley is another one who has done a mind meld with Palin in propagating that right-wing fabrication known as the "death panel."
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Hillary: Basher or Bashed?
Is the hubbub over Hillary's response to a question by a Congolese student an attempt to undermine her just because she's female? Or, a Clinton? Or both?
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Health Care: Passing Look at a Remote Area
Pardon the break from the public hysteria over health care for this sobering dose of reality.
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Underlying Shame?
Even if the majority of the people showing up at these health care meetings are furious at their Congresspeople and Senators, I'm noticing an interesting trait in the photos -- shame.
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Let's Play Hardball
Chris Matthews provides William Kostnic his 15 minutes of fame for bringing a 9mm pistol to Obama's health care rally in Portsmouth, N.H.
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Note to CBS: Quit Encouraging The Rioters
How simply and plainly can one say this? Specter was not shouted down. Specter was not even close to being shouted down.
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Grandma Must Die!
The killer element here (pardon the pun) is this dear lady's "death panel" pullover.
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