This photo speaks to how interminably mundane and, frankly, piss poor much of the Winter Olympic coverage is.
Continue ReadingWhat is the fascination with Bishop? Is it that a person with a disturbing history escaped charge or prosecution until the deaths and injury of six people? Or, as shown in this MSNBC screen grab of a young Bishop and the brother she shot, is it because a...
Continue ReadingI thought this was an interesting selection among the newswire offerings on Evan Bayh today -- given how his seemingly spur-of-the-moment retirement decision leaves the White House in such a bad way.
Continue ReadingYet another deep thinker fails to understand the difference between “weather” and “climate”…..Huffington Post reports on a NY Post story claiming that Donald Trump “points to snow storms and calls for Al Gore to be stripped of his Nobel Prize.” —Karen Hull (Photo: AP)
Continue ReadingOf all the World Press Photo award winners announced Friday, the picture that seems to be generating the most word-of-mouth is one by Eugene Richards. The photo of the severely injured Sgt. José Pequeño and his mother is part of a series of stories on Iraq veterans. Here, we...
Continue ReadingA (female) reader directed me to a clever, if simple site suggesting how much Sarah Palin's appeal could be cosmetic.
Continue ReadingGiven U.S. emphasis on counter-insurgency, a brilliant piece of Afghan war propaganda.
Continue ReadingThis shot by Tyler Hicks demonstrates the profound ambiguity of the much ballyhooed "new style" offensive in Marjah in Helmand province.
Continue ReadingLike Obama's Nobel, the choice of Pietro Masturzo's photo as World Press Award Top Prize may be aimed at inspiration. As the world sits on the sidelines, this photo, in its distance and emptiness, captures the grace and remote prospects of a true people's revolution in Iran.
Continue ReadingI'm interested in your thoughts on these GOP "Valentines Day" cards.
Continue ReadingThis stood out for me as a telling scene on a terribly disappointing day for the dissidents in Iran.
Continue ReadingNot Seeing Quite As Many Reports Of Those Haitians Getting Pretty Pissed Off In a Constructive Way.
Continue ReadingMy own take is that the display of these photos out-of-the-blue only reinforces America's near-fetishistic obsession with 9/11.
Continue ReadingAs Carrie Underwood completed her rendition of the Star Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl on Sunday, there was an (almost) perfectly timed military fly over and no one seemed to notice.
Continue ReadingThe largest contingent of medical relief workers in Haiti since the January 12th earthquake? The Cubans.
Continue ReadingIn that charming and clever way Sarah Palin has of flaunting her lack of depth and sophistication, SP goes to town on "the hand incident" as one more example of being picked on -- and made to look stupid! -- by the liberals and the media.
Continue ReadingDid you see the Budweiser Super Bowl spot where the town bridge is gone, and the townspeople couldn't care less ... until they hear a Bud truck is stuck on the other side? "Americans..." corporate America is telling us. "You're road kill."
Continue ReadingAnd then, why the violence toward women in general, using attacks by football players to make the violence seem like an extension of the game? (This screen shot show Betty White taking it in the name of a candy bar.)
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