9/11 Artifacts: Who Will Take the American Airlines Slipper?
Who is in line for the slipper?
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Your Turn: Looking at the New Cigarette Health Warnings
I'm interested in how you read the graphic cigarette health warnings (both individually and collectively) released today by the FDA.
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Ha! Ha! Being Worked to Death
The fact anyone would dare question the American work ethic, this ideal locked in the '50's, is where the slapstick comes in now.
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The Riot Kiss
I'm confident this wasn't staged and I'm confident it wasn't amorous, either. But then, the much more fascinating question to me is: why is the photo lighting up the internets?
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John Wayne’s Pom Poms
Miguel Angel Morenatti—AP You’re not in Kansas anymore, Champ. What I love about this photo (yeah, I used the word “love”) is how much fun it’s having with the European versus American perception of sexuality. Whereas many here in the States would take this, at a fast glance, as...
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On The First Post-Shooting Gabby Giffords Pix
Just like real life, today's photo of Gabby Giffords pulls us simultaneously in opposite directions, hope moving one way, reality the other.
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Disabled Infants as Campaign Props: Santorum, Palin and a Trig Update
To follow up (because little Trig was really the catalyst for the Santorum Tumble), I was interested to know whether and how much Sarah's Downs son was being showcased these days.
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Tiger Brats
While China struggles with its "Emperor brats," is the only way to stoke the Western competitive spirit these days (not to mention, more online clicks) through consumer envy?
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Juxtaposition of the Day: Eating our Peas
Does the New Yorker cover capture the collision between today's anti-government mood and the health movement, or just a little natural resistance to a growing trend? (If it's the later, though, somebody please tell Coca-Cola.)
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Attack on the Heartland
I'm not sure if this is a media phenomenon, a cultural reflex, or both, but why does the coverage of U.S. catastrophes seems to automatically and fundamentally activate a patriotic response, as if the disaster is somehow an attack on the country?
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Two Sex-Scandals: Focusing in on the Problem
While the impetus behind these stories is supposedly exposing the men that "done them wrong," it's often the women who suffer most from the media backlash.
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Obama, the Egyptian
I remember Afsaneh, quite matter-of-factly pointing to the portrait of Obama and asking: "You know what this photo is showing, don't you?"
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Bin Laden Been Inspirin': Lord Vader Addresses the Galaxy
Are there any comparisons to be drawn to reality here, or has bin Laden affair jumped the shark?
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Google Me
What makes the photo is not just the reflection how each of us operates in our own slick little bubble, it’s how the picture employs that cute, deadpan, playfully innocent, forever-young, candy-colored and ultimately addictive-like-crack Silicon Valley style and tone these days to do it. (photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP...
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Alan Chin: Through the Champagne Spray – Report from Ground Zero upon bin Laden’s Death
A crowd gathered at the World Trade Center site (Ground Zero) to celebrate after President Obama announced the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
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The Donald Revised
Of course, it would be a complete delusion to even assume that one word, or one cover, could effect a U-turn when it comes to the treatment and cultural platform afforded these types of actors, but it's a wonderful wish.
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Royal Wedding Interpretations #2
Perhaps this photo was so intensely popular because fantasy is out-of-style.
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