Alan Chin: Black Tea
What do we think when we see a Black Tea Party Member? We've got some questions:
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Alan Chin: 9/11 Anniversary Ground Zero Protests; We're Just All(ah) Americans Here
Whereas the media's visual coverage of the Ground Zero protests tend to frame them as a battle of left vs. right, or protectors of freedom of religion vs. defenders of the victims of 9/11, Alan Chin's photos from Lower Manhattan yesterday take a more practical view.
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9/11 Anniversary: Up From Zero
With the replacement structures on the rise, it's interesting to consider just how much that hole in the ground has contributed to a humiliation and shame over the terror attacks, in general, and the anger and hysteria over a planned Church Street Islamic cultural structure, in particular. Does...
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9/11 Did Not Discriminate … So Why Must We?
For once, because it's the anniversary of 9/11 today and because portraits and expressions like these are so reminiscent, I'll let the photos speak for themselves.
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Floridansanity: Mosque BBQ — Now With Cammo Twist!
If you thought the symbolism couldn't get any starker or more indictable in terms of hallmark American institutions becoming over-identified with Quran burning, what we see coming out of Gainesville from Terry Jones' church/outreach center is this fabulous merger of five mainstays of American culture.
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Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Wounded Warriors
Jeremy Lange's War Home At Home: The Wounded Warriors of Camp LeJeune. President Obama made a speech from the Oval Office ten days ago, but the question neither he, nor anyone, can truly answer is if all this death and suffering was in vain.
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"Burn a Quran" Update: Pics Getting Weirder
Of course, there's also the old adage, "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they also (by now) aren't out to get you."
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Equating Muslims with the Threat of Violence? You're Kidding, Right?
In the current atmosphere -- given the attacks on Obama's religious status and the NYC Islamic center, coupled with the obsessive preoccupation with the small-time Florida preacher intent on holding a 9/11 Quran burning -- I can't see where a photo like this is very constructive.
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The First Guy to Die in "Post-Combat" Combat vs. the Last Guy to Die in Combat (And Other All-Too-Fine Distinctions)
No soldier wants to be the last casualty in a war, but that designation pales in comparison to being the first fataliyy in a combat mission that has already been declared “over.” One week after “turning the page” on Operation Freedom two unidentified U.S. soldiers were killed by Iraqi...
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Obama: It’s a Dog’s Life
Did Obama's canine reference signify real push back, or are we making more out of it than just one riff.
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My 'Pastor Terry "Burn a Koran" Jones Photo Scrapbook': At the Office
Since he's on the verge of setting off a major conflagration between the Christian and the Muslim worlds, I thought it might be worthwhile for us to look at some pictures of Pastor Terry.
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An Extremist (and Media) Bonanza: Getting Fired Up For 9/11
With America in an accelerating spiral of anger and scapegoating over hard times, it seems the extremists -- with the media right there with a magnifying glass -- are claiming ownership not just over Ground Zero, but now, the 9/11 anniversary.
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Secret Mosque in the White House. No Joke!
Given the set-up in this Luckovich cartoon the NYT ran in the Week in Review, the threshold to hit the funny bone is to attribute the interpretation of a prayer rug, or Obama praying, to the prejudiced eye of the Tea Party crazies out the window. The...
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Racial/Ethnic Paranoia: The Latest Cat-and-Mouse
For catching the flavor of America's heightened paranoia over the undocumented and the would-be terrorist, this is one of the better photos I've seen in a while.
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"Pause"
Besides the good laugh I got out of this, I found Blitt's latest remarkably suggestive.
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McCain's Winning Pitch(fork)
The visual communication is simple. It's describing for us how John, who's really is not the biggest man, became an Arizona devil just to keep his Senate seat.
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Visual Week in Review: Iraq Getaway; King Beck; Godless Muslim Presidents, Sarah Gets Grizzly
This week’s VWIR focuses on the intense spin surrounding the informal end of the Iraq war, Glenn Beck’s not-political, not-hostile, not-Martin Luther King reminiscent love fest in D.C., and what can happen if you fall in the clutches of Sarah Palin. See previous Weeks in Review here.
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