Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne greet Vice President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill at the Vice President's residence.
Continue Readinghis coming weekend, the NYT Mag is publishing a major article about "where this government has taken the United States and what sort of world it will leave for the next president." I'm interest in your take on these prominent, and rather strange accompanying illustrations.
Continue ReadingOnly enhanced by the electric blue background, Crist offers this signature gesture to a spectator during Palin's address to a Plenary Session. I have no idea how to read Charlie's adulation in the second shot, but SP's "I'm the bomb" expression is well familiar by now.
Continue ReadingI wish I could say the Defense Secretary was at Arlington Cemetary last July to buck the unstated Administration policy of avoiding Iraq War veteran's funerals.
Continue ReadingOn view here is a wonderful visual metaphor of Hank Paulson, the Treasury Secretary as dictator.
Continue ReadingThe best shots I saw of President-elect Obama's White House visit?
Continue ReadingWhat Obama restores here in this Veteran's Day scene is something Bush largely extinguished through his subjugation of the American psyche.
Continue ReadingA look at Bush's "Last Veterans Day Accomplished," November 11, 2008, versus "Mission Accomplished," May 1, 2003.
Continue ReadingIt's an evocative image, even if it wasn't Veterans Day. It was taken at the U.S. military's base in Mosul on election night.
Continue ReadingAlthough the media completely looked the other way, Laura Bush did something quite strange while posing with the Obama's right after the couple arrived at the White House this afternoon.
Continue ReadingI've been looking at the Barack Obama election night Flickr set that many of you have written me about.
Continue Reading“You always hope that you don’t have to use it, but this is becoming a fact of life,” SWAT commander Lt. Joel Preston said.... Beyond the show room details, this stands as a visual evidence of the disaster capitalism and terror war culture we now must reverse.
Continue ReadingIt's the image I thought best captured this historic and deeply emotional week.
Continue ReadingThese "Welcome Back" decorations remind me of a child's birthday party, and I don't think the Palin association is an accident.
Continue Readingt's simply a brilliant shot, visually indistinguishable from a first cabinet meeting a mere three days into Obama's transition.
Continue ReadingIf you read my "What's Next" post last week, you know BAGnewsNotes has been charging ahead on all fronts. To embrace the success and take the site to the next level, The BAG could use some more hands. Because asking for help is my new "Obama change-era" resolution, here's...
Continue ReadingOne thing I'm deeply thankful to be losing is Bush/Rove's knee-jerk visual policy of representing Dubya, as much as possible, in the company of (and expressing love for) people of color.... and the impressive chef's hat. What is just as distinct a hallmark, however, is the race/class divide, the...
Continue ReadingI find this particularly moving, profoundly absorbing and quite sad.
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