(Revisiting) Chris Hondros on "The Hurt Locker"
I’ve been waiting for a truly great movie about the Iraq War. I know it’s still going on, but don’t think it’s impossible to ask for one. The issue is important to me, since like many journalists who have frequented Iraq I’ve often been frustrated by the public’s lack of...
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Don’t Ask
This Capitol Hill photograph is a clever visual statement about the hypocrisy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" as Congress considers repeal of the act.
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Fashion Week Update: It’s Cammo Again
Military style what's hot for Fall? Sounds like 7th Avenue's response to endless war.
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Oh, Canada
This photo speaks to how interminably mundane and, frankly, piss poor much of the Winter Olympic coverage is.
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Discharging DADT (Or: The Right’s Really Not a Happy Place)
Admiral Mullen could not have been more plain, open and unqualified in his opposition to Don't Ask Don't Tell, and the rights of gays to serve openly in the armed services. (Mullen, in fact, appeared quite pleased and proud about it, seeming to appreciate his own unique role today...
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Beyond Burning Bodies, High-Impact Mobilization and Those Haitians Down There
On the surface, this doesn't seem to have much to do with Haiti. Nothing is collapsed or broken, and there is no blood, no open wounds or stumps instead of hands or feet, no burning bodies. But then you read the caption: "Alex Alexis collapsed when he learned that...
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The Flogging
Tareq Salahi and his wife Michaele. The high priest and priestess of "look at me."
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Your Turn: Haiti, On a Not-Insubstantial Level, A Show
For days now, we have been flooded by absolutely horrific, increasingly grizzly and often factually fragmentary images pouring out of Haiti and distributed not just via broadcast, but faster and more widely than ever before, through the proliferating and voraciously "page view" hungry on-line media.
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Your Turn: Twins for Life
Sarah and Bristol Palin hit the cover of the grocery mag, in Touch Weekly as a virtual "pro-life" product placement, an endorsement of Sarah's eternal youth, another injection of motherhood cred, and also a hit back at Levi. BAGnewsNotes readers respond.
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The Best of the BAG Decade: Heavies and Heroes, Pt. I
(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.) Politicians and newsworthy figures often find themselves analogized with favorable and unflattering figures. Sometimes they do it to themselves. The BAG archive shows...
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Home Field Advantage
Defense Secretary Gates -- finally home from a dismal "surge kick-off trip" to Afghanistan and Iraq -- made up for it yesterday with a huge testosterone blast, conducting the coin toss at the annual Army-Navy game.
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The Number of Models Marketed Unapologetically at Children Stretches to 42
Serving up the U.S. as a country obsessed with living out childhood wild west gunslinger fantasies.
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Nixon’s Flock
On Thanksgiving, there are just too many Republican turkeys to choose from. This year, Nixon's the one!
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Your Turn: Milking It!
Can I get your thoughts/captions on this? (Also notice, by the way, that Nadya Suleman's full name doesn't even appear in the story till last line of paragraph three.) (photo: Gillian Laub for The New York Times)
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Foreigners on Wall Street … or: (Buzz Off, Cuz) the Street "Can't Slow Down"
Really loved how the New York Stock Exchange used pop culture this week to parody all us non-rock stars stiffed by Wall Street.
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"I have clearly made a huge mistake and am sorry 2 those that are offended."
Does this photo of Meghan McCain posted on Twitter displaying ample cleavage mean anything at all?
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