Wall Street: War's Over
What I can't get past is the fact that the benjamins represent the middle finger and one giant FU to government, Main Street and accountability.
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Amanda Rivkin in Hungary: Toxic Red Sludge
It's been six months since toxic red sludge from an aluminum plant in Hungary burst and flooded two surrounding villages. Photographer Amanda Rivkin delivers an update.
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Hair Raising Pic Aboard SW Air
The sky's the limit when it comes to technology, right? (Yeah, just ask the Japanese.)
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(M)arch Madness
Sports Illustrated's tournament cover photo "feats" how the NCAA, sports coaches and Madison Avenue are profiting to the stratosphere.
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Relative Size of the iPad
I suppose the point here, given the scale (and Steve's health), is that Apple is a lot bigger than Steve Jobs
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Obama/Zuckerberg
it's clear the Administration is only too happy to pose Obama with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. It reinforces Obama's star power and aligns him with the cutting edge.
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Tim Fadek: Is Social Media Destroying Public Interaction?
Maybe it's a stretch, but I see irony here -- guests seemed to spend more time with their phones than with each other. This begs the question: Outside of virtual, online sociality, does Social Media make us more or less social in person?
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Obama: J-O-B-S (Now, Repeat)
What this WH "photo of the day" does do, in big bold letters (also documenting a complete pivot in the populist direction once Team Obama left the Chamber and stepped into Lafayette Square), is drive home the singular message of the re-calibrated White House.
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Snickering Super Bowl Ads: Whiny Liberals Mowed Down in Logging Accident
There was a lot of violence yesterday during Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast, although most of it happened during the commercial breaks. How could red-blooded, faux patriotic right-wing America not have cheered!
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Super Bowl: Enter the Matrix
So maybe this isn’t "The Matrix," but "2001," the screen a monolith jammed into human consciousness by aliens. Except these aliens aren’t trying to usher in a new human race, but rather, one attuned completely to the corporate enterprise of buying-and-selling.
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Obama Electric (Or: Sputnik Moment)
As Obama simultaneously hits the field for the term's second half, kicks off the campaign and also morphs into a Chamber of Commerce man, I'm loving these shots from his GE photo-op (in which, while in Schenectady, he cut Paul Volker in exchange for Chairman Immelt).
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The New Pentagon: Soldiers of Fortune 500
America can not only occupy a country and level its industrial capacity, it can now, as a combined war machine and colonial Chamber of Commerce, actually pave the way for US companies to move on in.
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Nina Berman & Alan Chin: Broke-Beck Mountains of Madness
Glenn Beck in Wilmington, Ohio, selling $30 books, $125 theater tickets, and $500 breakfast.
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Nina Berman & Alan Chin: Waiting For Beck
Waiting for Glenn Beck in Wilmington, Ohio, where he performs "America's First Christmas" Wednesday. But most people are more worried about survival.
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Dark Lord Down
Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series #5: Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy is out. Their Upper Big Branch mine exploded earlier this year, killing 29.
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Mediation Fails
Fourth post of photographer Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series from West Virginia on mountaintop removal by coal companies.
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Mingo Slurry
Third post of photographer Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series from West Virginia on mountaintop removal by coal companies.
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