america adrift has gotten a facelift. Well, basically it’s a new template. But give it a look and leave a comment if you’re inclined. I still want to do something with the property here but can’t quite figure out what.
Tags: Blogging, Design
This is online counter-hegemonic narrative story telling at its best. Click the image to view.
This is the actual can of never before seen in Denmark, Turkish brewed Miller High Life I’m taking down tonight. I know, I know. I betray my redneck roots drinking from a glass. But this is crap beer. What the hell. It’s Miller Time. I’m done. Thesis completed. Somehow this can of Miller High Life finds its way on my local supermarket shelf. It was that golden tin star of “happiness” predicted by the horoscope I read on one of those free, train-ride newspapers. Poetic fate.
I’m trying to recall if I’ve ever seen Pelosi treated quite like this. Here she has the full weight of George Washington and the D.C. establishment behind her. Washington provides several metaphors simultaneously. Yes, he’s obviously got her back. He also provides a link between the past and the future, conveying both a sense of continuity and destiny. The book on the podium (conceivably a bible) adds a spiritual mandate. The Liberals will need to frame “universal” health care not only as an economic issue but also as a moral imperative. I also appreciate Washington’s open hand, a conciliatory gesture not unlike how Obama plans to guide the executive. Meanwhile, Pelosi with determined clinched fist, is now ready for the fight.
I’m looking at this image mostly from an ideological perspective but It’s encouraging to see Pelosi framed this way, from a position of authority, as opposed to this entirely different but all too common template.
Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Image, NYT
Sunday/Monday edition of Le Monde, 1-2 Nov 2008.
h/t davenoon.
Tags: Transnational ObamaI know we covered many of these topics during todays presentations. But I thought Eddie provides a good recap here. This is of course the old EM when he was still a tricklee not a trickeler. AC, I was especially thinking of you.
h/t Singular