White House: Control Freaks?
Posting a photo like this to the White House website as well as it's Flickr page, you have to wonder how much the Administration is highlighting immigration as a priority or demonstrating how much the operating model at 1600 is top down.
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Your Turn: Meteoric
I trolled through quite a lot of the photos from Russia yesterday. (In the process, I’m sure I saw more dashboard camera shots in one sitting than I’ve ever seen in my life.) This is the picture that most stood out for me. I’m just glad I wasn’t there....
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How Much More is Wrong with the SI Swimsuit Issue
How much more is going on between the desert and the trees.
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Dorner Dark Thirty
And the authorities are surprised by the sympathy for Dorner as extra-judicial killing comes home.
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Eastwood and the Pope Make My Day
This photo from Reuter's social media gallery is hilarious.
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State of the Union '13 in Screen Shots: Emotion (and Mastery) of "They Deserve a Vote"
What was masterful last night was the way the President was operating on two tracks, delivering an appeal to conscience (and Congressional action) while, at the same time, politically shaming the Republicans.
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Our Take on the Viral Photo "Not Chris Dorner Please Do Not Shoot"
More and more, it feels like this is what America has come to, failing people on the front-end, then just rubbing them out quick-and-simple on the back end to save ourselves from having to look in the mirror.
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The Hattiesburg Tornado and Self-Defense
With constituencies for both gun control and climate legislation each eagerly awaiting tonight's lead-off second term State of the Union, this unfortunate aftermath photo from the Hattiesburg tornado is quite a mash-up.
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Benedict Moves On: The Pope Without a Face
From the get-go, this cold and severe man was unable to connect with the camera or the broader public, perhaps a more fatal liability in this media and telegenic era.
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Chinese New Year: Where There’s Smoke
D you know when you're really feeling the climate anxiety?
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Hilariously or Just Sincerely Tragic: Closing Scenes from America's Afghan War
Macho, playful or just cinematic, Burton's photos from this Reuters embed are just too innocent, too uncomplicated to be taken at face value.
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POY Winners: Terror Comes Home
Jonathan Blunk wasn't killed in Kabul or Helmand or Kandahar or or Ghazni or Wardak or Khost but in the Dark Knight theater shooting in Aurora.
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Lynsey Addario: Simply Women Soldiers in Afghanistan
Coming upon this U.S. soldier in Afghanistan at the end of Lynsey Addario's NYT Lens slideshow/interview, I was surprised my reaction was so utilitarian.
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We Look at Scouts From Both Sides Now
If you haven't noticed, the battle to open the Boy Scouts to gays has now been fully engaged by visual media.
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Getty’s Somodevilla: Drones in the Air on Capitol Hill
What goes around comes around?
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