Category: Face Of The Day

A man prays for atomic bomb victims before dawn in front of the altar at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on August 6, 2009. The western Japanese city marked its 64th anniversary of the atomic bombing. By Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images.

These anonymous posters have been popping up around Los Angeles. It seems to be a new variant of “Obama is a terrorist” – or at least that he’s very, very scary. But as Robert Dougherty points out, the messaging gets a bit muddled from there:

The Joker was many things, but was hardly a socialist. In fact, the Joker is the polar opposite of a socialist, and anyone who watched The Dark Knight would know that.

Socialism is the result of an all powerful central government that runs every aspect of life – but the Joker subscribes to anarchy, one of socialism’s polar opposites. If the Joker was a socialist, he would be destroying Gotham in the name of an all powerful state. Instead, the self-described “agent of chaos” nearly brought down the state itself, and all of its most cherished institutions, so that nothing could bring order to Gotham.

Photos of the posters in action:

Face sculptures made from TP rolls by Junior Jacquet. Althouse quips: "Strangely, all the faces look like George H.W. Bush. To me, anyway." Agreed: snapshots as he realized what his son was doing with his presidency.

Bat catcher Gunawan collects bats captured in a cave on July 31, 2009 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A typical catch numbers around 800 bats a month. The Imogiri people believe that the meat of the local bat has healing properties for asthma and respiratory problems. By Ulet Ifansasti/Getty.

A young boy gloomily looks out of the window as incessant rain continues to fall on July 29, 2009 in Walsall, United Kingdom. The MET office has revised it's weather forecast after predicting a scorching summer earlier in the year and is now forecasting an unsettled month of August. By Christopher Furlong/Getty Images.

 

Demonstrators attend a rally near Times Square in solidarity with Iranian people whose human rights are being abused in Iran on July 25, 2009 in New York City. Similar rallies billed as 'a global day of action' by organizers have been scheduled in major cities around the world. By Ramin Talaie/Getty

Walter Breuning, at age 112 now considered the oldest man in the world, smiles while at the Rainbow Assisted Living Facility on July 23, 2009 in Great Falls, Montana. Bruening, born Sept. 21, 1896 in Melrose Minnesota, inherited the title when Henry Allingham of England died last weekend. Breuning moved to Great Falls in 1918 with the expansion of the railroad and worked for the railroad for 50 years. He says he stays healthy by eating just two meals per day and excercises by strolling the halls of the retirement home with the aid of a walker. He shuns medicine, except for one low-dose aspirin per day. His earliest memory is of hearing his grandfather talk about fighting as a Union soldier in the Civil War. The Guinness World Records is expected to make the official announcement soon, after verifying his records. By John Moore/Getty.

A woman observes the total solar eclipse at the Yonsei University on July 22, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. The moon covered 78 percent of the sun during the solar eclipse viewed from Seoul. The longest total eclipse of the sun of this century triggered tourist fever in Asia as astronomy enthusiasts from home and abroad flocked to watch the event .The eclipse was visible from within a narrow corridor that begins in India and crosses through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. By Chung Sung-Jun/Getty.

Bradley Wiggins of Great Britain and Garmin arrives at the start of stage 16 of the 2009 Tour de France from Martigny to Bourg-Saint-Maurice on July 21, 2009 in Martigny, Switzerland. By Bryn Lennon/Getty.

by Chris Bodenner

Shepard Fairey honors imprisoned Prime Minister-elect Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma:

“Aung San Suu Kyi is the Nelson Mandela of Asia,” said Jack Healey, the head of the Human Rights Action Center. “Shepard’s tribute to her will remind the world she is the rightful leader of Burma in a powerful way. I always felt it was his image that galvanized the Obama movement, God willing, it will do the same for Aung San Suu Kyi and those fighting for human rights in her name.”