The Newsweek cover positions women as neither purveyors nor consumers of culinary high culture. Instead, like the accompanying asparagus, they are objects of desire.
Continue Readingit's easy to ignore the demands and requirements of community mental health, then just chalk it up to evil when one of these slowly decompensating guys finally goes off.
Continue ReadingI can only wonder what the quick coalescing Team Douglas now thinks of the quirky portrait, sporting that "complicated" expression, relative to "building out the brand."
Continue ReadingNot that the symbolism counts for much, so deep is the horror and contempt for Wade Michael Page. Still, the inclusion of this photo on his My Space page could be seen to weigh on his own viability.
Continue ReadingMy question is, how much does exoticism come into play picturing the Sikh community after the tragic shooting at the Temple in Oak Creek?
Continue ReadingLooking at the color of politics (and the politics of color) Tea Party insurgents this season have been swimming in bright red.
Continue ReadingIt's easy to say that such slip ups are inevitable, and someone might respond to seeing this one that way. The point is, though, that this visual doesn't represent "one instance" so much as it stands for a pattern.
Continue ReadingOne week into the 2012 London Olympics, BagNews takes a look at the political optics with sports rhetoric professor Michael Butterworth.
Continue ReadingNBC perpetuated the myth that terror only happened to Americans. That we can't identify or relate to the loss experienced by other peoples, other nations. That we don't look or feel like everyone else.
Continue ReadingIn light of his Disney fascination …and the surprise marriage announcement, is Kim Jong Un turning N. Korea into a stage show? If his father earned 1st world attention just for looking at things before the camera, is Junior more interesting in enacting his own Disney-fied fantasies in real life?...
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