The Ed Watch — #1: Cool Equipment
In this first installment of the Ed Show, we see Ed listening to a question from a reporter after a press conference at Detroit Edison with some cool-looking equipment behind him.
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Your Turn: Milking It!
Can I get your thoughts/captions on this? (Also notice, by the way, that Nadya Suleman's full name doesn't even appear in the story till last line of paragraph three.) (photo: Gillian Laub for The New York Times)
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Goodbye, Dobbs … For a Minute
Daylife has a characteristic photo of Lou Dobbs in the midst of an anti-racism protest.
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Veteran’s Code
Picture of Native-American veterans on Veterans Day give us pause to consider how inclusive a society we're actually fighting for.
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Health Care: It’s All For the Cameras Now
1. Star power as a substitute for leverage. 2. The impression of excitement and momentum on Capitol Hill on the way to … just pass anything. (image: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. caption: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) is accompanied by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) (C) as he heads into...
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Fort Drum: The Sound of No Hands Clapping
If the disease is the war, and a culture of trauma, anger and violence at Fort Hood, applying meditation and stress management techniques sends the message to the soldier that the distress lies within the individual.
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Fall of the Wall + 20: Promises, Promises
If the "fall of the Berlin Wall" anniversary images deliver a huge nostalgia payoff, it's not like the West matches the build up of the promised land.
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Surprising Lessons (How News Magazines Can Use Iconic Pictures to Keep the Neocon Dream Alive)
With Obama still assessing options in Afghanistan, this photo of Americans bailing from South Vietnam from the embassy roof is one loaded and thoughtless image to throw on the national newsstand.
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Health Care Victory, Stage 1: And What Would Losing Look Like?
That's quite a dodgy photo of Obama and Congressional leaders leading today's NYT marking the historic passage in the House of health care reform.
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Look of Oppressed: About the Same, Except a Lot Less Blurrier
The dance of the native and foreign worker? Timeless.
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Pipe Dream Come True
Where does The Economist "get off" capturing the fall of the Berlin wall anniversary this way?
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Height of Irresponsibility
In a flaunting and thoroughly cyncial act caught in DC on Friday, we see a GOP Congressman literally throwing (health)care (legislation) to the wind. ... John Culberson, R-Texas throws the Health Care bill to the crowd on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, during a health care...
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Our Soldiers of Islam
It's not often I say this, but this photo by Dallas Morning News photographer Sonya N. Hebert offers a powerful, important and very timely contribution following Maj. Nidal Hasan's Ft. Hood killing spree.
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On the Move
Just a note: the posting schedule might be a little erratic over the next few days as The BAG does some recon in DC. Thx.
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Killing Ourselves
If Nidal Hasan lost his mind (as opposed to "crossing over to the enemy") just preceding the killing spree at Ft. Hood, this photo offers some context for it.
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Ron Ron Ron, Ron Ron Away
Even if Steele is a blowhard... maybe these guys (cut to Reagan) aren't all that stupid.
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Paging Dr. Dean
Talk about the dregs, Tim Keane, the drubbing in the Virginia Governors race, and the Democrats poor use of imaging.
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