Death of Raw Realism
January 16, 2009Andrew Wyeth, one of greats in the art world of precise realism, died today at the age of 91. (Illustration of Wyeth’s ‘Christina’s World‘ found here). On the artwork above, from the New York Times…
Category Archives: Media
‘Flat’ Finish
January 16, 2009One last jab at Decider George’s sad and nearly-innocuous good-bye address last night, an useless endeavor if there’s ever been one, and with nearly 70 percent of US peoples wanting him gone — good, good-bye…
Iran Hand
January 10, 2009As the Gaza situation continues, even in the face of international outcries and the top U.N. human rights official calling for a war crimes investigation, the real-deal hand in all this, Iran, is being cool.…
Obama’s Panetta: Blowback the Spooks
January 8, 2009Intelligence does not always mean brainy. Charlie Wilson wasn’t a spook, but he used the stuff of spooks to create such an explosive blowback situation in Afghanistan that the war he fueled altered modern life…
Hang ‘Em, Hang ‘Em High
January 1, 2009As one of the most-bizarre and just-plain-weird years comes to a close and a new 12-month cycle just cranks off, I’ve gotten this really-bad feeling about Decider George and all the horrible, immoral, illegal shit…
Toe-Heeled America
December 25, 2008Interview of Seymour Hersh by Arabic daily, Asharq Al-Awsat, via AlterNet: I really believe something happened to America; after 9/11 we became a different country. That is fine, presidents sometimes might want to do that,…
Oil Gone
December 23, 2008Life as we know it is coming to a quick, sure end. A story this morning is disturbing: So burn this into your mind: between 2007 and 2008 the IEA (International Energy Agency) radically changed…
‘Two Feet in One Shoe’ or A Cordwainer’s Delight
December 20, 2008Bloomberg reported Friday a certain Turkish shoe is flying off the shelf (h/t TPM): Baydan has received orders for 300,000 pairs of the shoes since the attack, more than four times the number his company…
Memory
December 19, 2008During the daily US State Department press briefing Thursday, Sean McCormack said the infamous shoe-throwing incident last weekend will be eclipsed by other more-important shit 50 years from now. An image, though, for pure foolish…
Dangerous Shoe
December 18, 2008Another observation from the UK’s Patrick Cockburn on last weekend’s shoe-throwing-at-Decider George incident and how these press conferences, media glad-handing photo ops can be highly misleading. Even with all the Iraqi public support for the…