Wild Thing
My tweet today: Regarding that DeLay video Cable was milking all day, I think the "Value Voters" would call that "dirty dancing."
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Middle East Body Language
Given Netanyahu's foot dragging on negotiations, the public handshake between Obama, Bibbi and Abbas in New York today offered something of a reflection on the political dynamics.
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(Holy) Spirit of the Value Voters
If you have a chance, check out photojournalist Jim Lo Scalzo's slide show of last weekend's Value Voters Summit in D.C.
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Obama’s College Park Rally: We Love You, But…
In the photo from Obama's big health care rally at the University of Maryland in College Park, you did notice the little green sign in the background, right?
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Glenn Beck, Intellectual
By creating a cheap veneer that he's deep, thoughtful, and really cares about the historical stuff, Beck almost gets away with the obvious.
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George Schieffer and Bob Stephanopoulos
I thought the beauty of the this collage illustrated how the five inside-the-beltway Sunday news anchors who interviewed Obama yesterday might as well be clones.
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Obama’s First General Assembly: A Spittin’ Preview
I had a fleeting fantasy last night that the media, in this new post-Bush era, might somehow choose not to reduce Obama's first General Assembly meeting from a serious and substantive platform of world leaders from across the globe into a perceptual cat-and-mouse game between Obama and Ahmadinejad.
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More Bang For The Buck
You think we're seeing a trend this week ... editorial taste shot to hell as the business bleeds out?
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Ken Light’s California: Going to Seed (Hallelujah!)
I'd like to spend some time looking at work by Ken Light, one of the country's best social and documentary photographers.
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Salud
If a health bill, in the form of an "ode to the Republicans," passes the Congress and all pipelines to services for illegal (and even less-than-five year legal) immigrants are cut off, does the next version of this story offer men simply keeling over in "our" spinach?
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Glen Beck’s Organ. TIME’s Dime.
TIME's hostile and lurid Glen Beck cover has exceeded a boundary here, in effect, pulling its own Joe Wilson.
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The Practice of Domination in Everyday Life
The photo appeared on page A8 of the morning edition of the New York Times with this caption: “ Tinderbox In Hebron, a Jewish settler threw wine at a Palestinian woman.... Look at the woman’s coat and hat, and at the Star of David scrawled on the storefront; she...
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A Jedi-Infused "Yes We Can"
I sense yesterday's Obama/Star Wars photo op was actually a lot less frivolous than it seems at first.
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Horse Feathers
There are a number of reasons why this inauguration photo from Max Baucus' website stood out for me -- now that he's come away from his protracted quest for a bipartisan health care agreement with nothing (but concessions).
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Ready To Go?
Is Obama gaining traction, has he had it the whole time, or is this the view from the bubble?
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Laid Off Today
Not that I'm dripping with compassion for laid-off MBAs cast off from the behemoths of Wall Street. What I do appreciate, however (on top of the growing prominence of the hand-made sign as a stimulus for political discourse), is the emotional symbolism here.
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Kalid Sheik Muhammed has a New Photo Out. (Lock Down the Ports!)
With al-Qaeda playing a much weaker hand these days, can a photograph have that kind of power -- more so, say, than the power of the neocons to invest that much fear in one?
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