Forced into the open by his brother's mess and Trump’s withering attacks, those looks come from having to defend oneself.
Continue ReadingWhat's great about these images the National Archives were compelled to turn over is just how politically incorrect they are.
Continue ReadingWith a more rainbow approach to America, the visual tonic is: we're not your father's GOP.
Continue ReadingIt’s like the media is discovering anew the man lives in a parallel universe when the cover of his 2011 biography said it all.
Continue ReadingNature has a way of crumpling itself up when it’s malnourished.
Continue ReadingGiven the explosive nature of the torture program and the need for deniability, the ability to lull both the public and the media represented the highest form of art.
Continue ReadingIt seems photo editors were in a quite a mood this week.
Continue ReadingNow it'd be all-too-easy to chalk this up solely to prankishness, but there is a funny (but not-at-all funny) relationship here to something America just hasn't dealt with openly.
Continue ReadingLooking at the photos from the White House portrait unveiling yesterday, and how different they can be.
Continue ReadingAll too many memories from this pic of Rove and Perino back in the White House yesterday.
Continue ReadingI don't know how I could have possibly missed the omney money anagram.
Continue ReadingPeople tend to look at photos like these and see Laura as an empty shell. However, I always saw it as guardedness, so what you see is a thoroughly scrubbed and generic Lady's Home Journal-style surface.
Continue ReadingSpeaking of Bush and the war decade. (Hey, did you see that B-52?)
Continue ReadingThe fact that the logo of the Bush Library (sort of a paradoxical concept in itself), represents a melding of the flag and the bible is something of a parting shot for all posterity.
Continue ReadingHere's my mark-up of the The Times' full page Bush make-over.
Continue ReadingHow does NBC lead off "Bush Week" as the network that scored the kick-off interview to the week long marathon of Bush re-entry and reconstitution? With baseball, Texas, a focus on ancient history, a vivid painting of radical anti-abortion imagery and Mom.
Continue ReadingPiggybacking on Obama's racial breakthrough, we see Rice reformulating herself as a valiant narrator of the African-American experience and a witness to the civil rights movement while growing up in the South.
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