Well, this morning we brought you the GOP's best foot forward. Tonight, we've got the Administration's view of the post-mid-term Obama - GOP power breakfast (with a little annotation from The Bag).
Continue ReadingThe above photograph is nearly fifty years old and I doubt very many people have ever seen it before—or can identify the event that it marks. I couldn’t. Nevertheless, it is interesting for several reasons.
Continue ReadingI'm getting a kick out of this wire photo from what's been informally billed as the first post-shellacking GOP-Obama Summit.
Continue ReadingIt seems the flood of unvarnished diplo-chatter revealed by the latest Wikileaks leak has provided media, especially visual media, a field day to dish dirt on world leaders rather than really dig for photos that cast a clearer light on all the new information.
Continue ReadingWhen did reality, let alone the threat to U.S. security, ever get in the way of the opportunity to stonewall a Democratic president?
Continue Reading"But can you afford all that junk?" the girl with the cell asks.
Continue ReadingOf course, nobody would go so far as to draw political symbolism from Obama getting his lip split open on the b-ball court today, would they?
Continue ReadingSpencer Platt describes the moral uneasiness of working in Haiti during cholera outbreak.
Continue ReadingWhat the pardon ceremony says about Team Obama, and (what looks to us like) Madame Tussauds' preview of the 2011 Obama - Congress showdown.
Continue ReadingIn light of Petraeus hyping a series of major meetings with what turns out to be a Taliban imposter, excuse me for feeling the urge to modify the caption of this four-week-old wire photo
Continue ReadingWith the slow news period and now the impending Thanksgiving holiday representing a huge ADD crisis for a country and a media wired for controversy and obviously bored with more complex issues such as the war in Afghanistan (or Washington, even), the TSA brouhaha (especially as it deliciously intersects...
Continue ReadingI'm especially drawn to the two seats of power, and how much the Stock Exchange has become a primary platform for celebrating our warriors -- cultural commodities and impermanent icons that they are.
Continue ReadingA horrific metaphor, one more cruel for the way it's so indistinguishable from January...
Continue ReadingWe only have one question....
Continue ReadingCan't believe I'm saying this, but the conservatives are hot.
Continue ReadingI'm interested in why these scenes, and this experience, of course, has created the firestorm it has.
Continue ReadingBy this point in Obama's presidency, it's pretty clear to most people (except the most lizard-brained) that the racist/gang attack is a straw man. But if that's the case, then why do it?
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