Sarah’s Scribbles (Continued)
I don't know about you, but listening to Sarah Palin anytime -- not just during the softball interview on-stage at the Tea Party convention -- is really painful. If you're trying to specifically understand what you're seeing in the photos above, however, the answer -- which also accounts in...
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Haiti: "Nobody in Charge" (As Far As U.S. Is Concerned)
It's like "Where's Waldo?" -- except the guy we can't find is René Préval.
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BagNewsSalon: Haiti Aftermath
This BAGnewsSalon examined a small group of images from the week following the devastating Haitian earthquake, considering: the boundaries of the graphic and sensational; how much the pictures presented a representative versus generic or stereotyped view of the Haitian people; and whether the pictures overly skewed toward human suffering...
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TV Party Movement
Stephen Crowley captures the thrust of the "no-there there" Tea Party Convention, and the party itself, in one take: It's about theatrics.
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Friday Your Turn: Baaaaad to the Bone
What is it about the "demon sheep" that is causing so much buzz?
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Fun and Games at the National Prayer Breakfast
I had a great time this morning looking at pictures from the National Prayer Breakfast and comparing the radically different spin....
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It Feels So Good To Help
"What happens to poor countries when they embrace free trade? In Haiti in 1986 we imported just 7000 tons of rice, the main staple food of the country. The vast majority was grown in Haiti. In the late 1980s Haiti complied with free trade policies advocated by the international...
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Getting the Picture?
The situation between this Israeli settler and this evicted Palestinian woman is obviously tense, but what's going on? Are we supposed to guess?
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Discharging DADT (Or: The Right’s Really Not a Happy Place)
Admiral Mullen could not have been more plain, open and unqualified in his opposition to Don't Ask Don't Tell, and the rights of gays to serve openly in the armed services. (Mullen, in fact, appeared quite pleased and proud about it, seeming to appreciate his own unique role today...
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Campaign ’10 Mood Music
A Twitter follower tweeted me this picture he took of Senator Schumer at a rally yesterday at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. ...The picture, though, seems to go beyond the immediate issue to address the larger public mood heading into the election season.
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Billions and Billions Served
There's great news for everyone who was worried about the military budget .
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Bottom Line, I’d Much Rather See Haitian Uniforms Wringing Haitian Necks
...but there's no way this would be circulating if it didn't evoke a lot of other meanings, too -- about U.S. power and also our longstanding local "influence."
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