As we roll into the weekend, I want to try an experiment. I'm interested to see what image you've either found, or would select to best illustrate the news that Clinton is becoming 44's Secretary of State -- and why.
Continue ReadingIf you know this site at all, I'm sure you appreciate how I never pass up an opportunity to bash Bush for crippling America's standing with the rest of the world. That said, however, I would never do it at the expense of falsely interpreting either still images or...
Continue ReadingBecause one of my longtime political passions has been fighting the corporate and commercial appropriation of public space, I am interested in how you respond to these photos of Grand Central both before and now ad-free.
Continue ReadingWhy should the so-called experts have all the fun in the Minnesota Senate recount? You make the call.
Continue ReadingABC uses undercover video techniques to hammer U.S. auto industry executives.
Continue ReadingMaybe Hillary failed in her campaign promise to the American people to contain her husband, but Obama seems up to the task of an up-to-now unheard of roping in
Continue ReadingIn allowing Lieberman to retain his chairmanship of the Homeland Security committee after Lieberman sided with McCain and banged away at Obama for months, Lieberman stays in the Democratic fold but severely chastened by his reprieve.
Continue ReadingThere is an interesting post up at Michelle Obama Watch discussing Elizabeth Peyton's painting "Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008." I encourage your thoughts on it.
Continue ReadingAs part of the continuing evolution of BNN, I am pleased to introduce you to our newest contributor, Zoriah Miller.
Continue ReadingRegarding the TIME Obama as FDR cover, are the historical analogies getting a bit much? BAGreaders take over.
Continue ReadingWith the Obama team in only a beginning shape, and barely flexing in the face of drastic problems, the tone has already shifted.
Continue ReadingGod speed to the administration-in-waiting, not just for its supreme confidence but for the corresponding encouragement of legendary comparisons. Here's the image Obama cut with Newsweek this week, based on the president-elect's deep identification with Lincoln as a model and inspiration
Continue ReadingWith president-elect Obama -- in the space of a week -- having elevated to a whole new level of artistic and metaphorical inspiration, I'm curious about this cover of The New Yorker.
Continue ReadingRahm Emanuel via bootleg video at HuffPost.... 20th Annual Roast for Spina Bifida, Hilton Washington.
Continue ReadingIs Obama really willing to deal with the amount of political oxygen Hillary would consume?
Continue ReadingIf you watch the video, you can see how Palin (at about the 9:20 mark) steps back into line with the other governors having already answered the first three questions -- Palin using most of the last one to emphasize how much she's just part of the group.... Although...
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