I'm Glad I Spent it With You: On the Passing of Lou Reed
Like always, Reed used these three categories typically ascribed to the artist -- personal destruction, recovery and transcendence -- as just more ironic material.
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Saudi Women: Driving Home the Point
How nice (and stereotype-defying) to see men also giving a nod.
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Alex Garcia's "Inner City" Photos from Austin: The Pictures That Cannot Be Seen
Where the "impossibility" lies is in the steep challenge of looking at these photos naïvely enough to consider each individual as distinct from the associations they invariably stimulate.
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Son of Shutdown: Those Obama Rose Garden/Affordable Care Roll Out Photos
Conventional media wisdom and some misplaced notion of balance and liberal panic has apparently dictated that the Affordable Care Act's stumble out of the gate equates to the GOP's near-lethal, self-inflicted wound.
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The Kidnapped White Girl Photo to Top Kidnapped White Girl Photos?
I wish it was the Onion, but it's not.
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Visual Evidence Way Back in 2010 of GOP Leadership Bringing Tea Partiers into the Fold
Fast forward to now, can anyone say that McCarthy's open door policy and cajoling talent has led to the mavericks climbing under his wing?
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Sunday Stills #2: Windowless
Do you know what's so brilliant -- and brilliantly rare -- about Chip Somodevilla's Instagram?
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Sunday Stills #1: Here's What You Can Do With Your Shutdown
With conservatives precluding the ability of the government to pay its bills, raining down benjamins was a way of mocking that leverage -- along with its paternalism.
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On Banksy's NY Residency: Respect to 9/11
I know the man works quickly so I can't tell how much he intended the petals to appear blackened but it speaks eloquently, both to the horror as well as the re-emergence.
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Cruz, Palin and The Clown Show — Courtesy of Photographer Mark Peterson
Only the fizzling end to the insurrection has allowed reality to catch up to Mark Peterson's Cruz, Palin and Paul.
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Shooting Boehner: Shutdown Visuals Meet GOP Aggression
To the extent he and his caucus are perpetrating violence on the legislative system, yes, the photos do feature photographers targeting Boehner with their lenses.
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On That Viral Red Sox Home Run Photo on the Boston Globe Cover (and What it Has to Do With the Marathon Bombing)
The overcoming of adversity relates not just to Boston but the country, baseball being America's game.
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Is the Backlash Finally Underway?
Finally a full-throated backlash image -- and the strongest expression of liberal assertiveness since the 2012 election.
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Looking in on White House Photog Charles Dharapak, the Shutdown Watch and Good Cheer to Getty's Alex Wong
it's hard for me to look at those two images without musing how the Shutdown Futility Show might be encouraging many to see some agony in almost any political photo out of Washington these days.
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The Saddest/Most Viral Shutdown Photos (Or: It's a Zoo Out There)
I can't tell if these sentimentalized BuzzFeed-style photo-posts about the shutdown reflect a larger sympathy or they're just heartstring slingshots.
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Facebook Censorship, Photographer Jacob Aue Sobol and a Birthday
You don't have a good idea, a lovely day, a touching moment, a sense of awareness, a sense of poignancy or connection -- a sense that someone is a part of you or you are a part of someone else -- (in other words, anything that makes Facebook Facebook)...
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