Go Tell it on a Mountain: An Update on One Wounded Warrior
I guess the caption, detailing Sgt. Duncan's exploits (left), is supposed to set minds to rest?
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#43 on Injured Reserve?
It was unsettling last week to see Bush turn up on the newswire while, at the same time, the headlines were covered with his fingerprints. The fact he looks so glassy and washed out just two years later just suggests how hard he had to work while in office...
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Do Real Presidents Show Up at Arlington?
Might the grasping and "beyond petty" attack on Obama for not being at Arlington tomorrow actually have a message in it after all?
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FORTUNE: Worse for Ware?
A close up look at the Chris Ware cover rejected by FORTUNE. ...Though it won't ever see the newsstand, zoom to the bottom for some fun.
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Best of the Bag Decade: BAG Looks at the Iraq War
(The Best of the Bag Decade is our end of the year, end of the decade look at some of the best BAGnews posts and analysis.) The Iraq War has been (and still is) a frequent subject on BAGnews and, frankly, such a topic of government and media spin...
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Rove’s Fun and Games in the Name of Wounded Warriors
If Karl Rove is so intent on exploiting the kind of suffering that would lead a veteran and/or his family to question the worth of existence, he should tell it to the people paying for his handiwork, not Sean Hannity.
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Partying Like It’s, Well, 2000 – 2008
What makes the picture worthy is that it nails the essential character of Bush's unblinking administration (and also reconciles the early Bush with the much ballyhooed dry drunk version).
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Bush/Cheney Suppressed Global Warming Images
When evidence of global warming (courtesy of their own spy satellites) was staring them in the face, not one speck of evidence ever informed Bush and Cheney's behavior
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Obama – Putin Not in Love!
Then, fast forward to this week with the return to normalcy marked by a healthy distance; looks of feeling each other out; and skepticism for gamesmanship and artificiality.
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Condi … Beyond The 4th Grade
Whereas Condi Rice, too, was always bumbling over herself to find the right "diplomatic" words, here -- with her guard down, and torture "on the table" -- she is suddenly perfectly articulate, if thoroughly contemptuousness.
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"Cabinet Room" Revisited
I thought it was worth taking another look at the Leibovitz "Cabinet Room" portrait, which not only shot right after the start of the Afghan invasion but also occurred -- in terms of present context -- four months after the Bybee torture memo was written.
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A Rather Troubling Newswire Image On The Day Obama Releases Bush Interrogation Memos
A Rather Troubling Newswire Image On The Day Obama Releases Bush Interrogation Memos
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If You Give A White House Parodist A Cookie…
If you thought Christopher Morris was moving away from the White House and political satire with the extinguishing of Bush and the Republicans -- look again!
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Throwback
This photo of George Bush throwing out the first pitch in Arlington on baseball's opening day ends up looking surprisingly familiar.
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On Errol Morris’s Interview: Ground Zero, And Placing Bush "In The Context Of Where He Was"
The account I found most telling in Errol Morris's interview with three wire service photo editors about the Bush era involves the editorial effort to "place" Bush at Ground Zero.
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Social Positions
It will be interesting to see how the Obamas use the social rooms in the White House, and how -- especially compared to George and Laura Bush -- they set the tone and dynamic with their guests.
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