Google is hosting millions of pictures from Life magazine, from the 1750s to today. Say goodbye to the rest of your day. A post-election media moment from 1884 after the jump:
Crowds of men outside the NY Tribune bldg. (sign says The New York Extra) two days after elections. By Wallace Levison.
Jeff Rosen likes the AG pick:
As deputy AG, Holder, supervised all of the administrative and enforcement components of the Justice department, and understands the importance of professionalism rather than politics. This is particularly important in offices like the Division of Justice Management, which recently approved Gonzales’s request for taxpayers to pay his private attorneys fees (rather than relying on DOJ lawyers) in the suit against him by law students who allege he refused to hire them because of their political beliefs. What a relief it will be to have a Justice department where you can trust that these sorts of decisions are being made on the merits rather than for partisan reasons.
Judah Grunstein passes along what is claimed to be the text of the SOFA.
If this study doesn’t wake up the Republicans, nothing will.
Or why you still get those spam emails. They work!
I watched Bill O’Reilly last night interview actor Kirk Cameron on marriage equality, an interview in which Cameron said that civil marriage is not susceptible to any change because it is ordained by God. Like many of his fellows, Cameron sees no distinction – because there can never be a distinction for fundamentalists – between civil and religious law. To his credit, O’Reilly asked all the right questions of Cameron, but he kept showing that Youtube of a confrontation in the Castro district, as the bars closed. O’Reilly has not shown any images of the hundreds of totally positive, peaceful protests that went on across the country last Saturday. But that clip, like the Jeremiah Wright clips, are being shown over and over again on Fox to polarize the debate, and to whip up fear among conservative Christians.
But who were those people who decided that immediately after the bruising Prop 8 battle, it was necessary to go into the Castro district to urge homosexuals to repent at the very moment on a weekend night when many bar patrons in a nightlife district would be inebriated or otherwise feisty?
The prayer push was totally within their rights, of course, and should not have been impeded. But I think we can say it was not exactly tactful at such a raw moment. As one of their overly-angry protestors put it, "Why here? Why now?’ Well: you get some idea by watching where one of them ended up soon after, at an event in Kansas hosted by Christian Dominionist, Lou Engle, of Joel’s Army. He is an advocate of total religious war against "demonic" gay people. And one of the young women who went into the gay neighborhood that night calls for a "mass exodus from the demonic influence of the Castro." Dominionists want an end to the Constitution and reimposition of Biblical law. They truly are the American Taliban. And when they go looking for a religious war, Fox News is there to help them.
Hope is a subtle glutton;
He feeds upon the fair;
And yet, inspected closely,
What abstinence is there!His is the halcyon table
That never seats but one,
And whatsoever is consumed
The same amounts remain.– Emily Dickinson.
(Photo: Obama in Oregon by Justin Sullivan/Getty.)
Al Qaeda sends out a new message:
Al-Zawahri says in an audio message, which appeared on militant Web sites Wednesday, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X. He calls Obama a "house negro." The audio plays over still pictures of al-Zawahri, Malcolm X praying, and Obama with Jewish leaders.
Jason Zengerle snickers: "Evidently, Al-Zawahri doesn’t spend a lot of time reading the conservative blog Atlas Shrugs. Otherwise he’d know that Obama is actually Malcolm X’s love child."
I had no idea there were so many varieties of mustache.
Greenwald thinks Holder is a step in the right direction.
The Dish 