Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Obama’s Perfunctory Gay Marriage Endorsement
Is it a significant development that the president of the United States has professed his support for gay marriage? Of course it is. Is it also a narrow development? Yes, that, too.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Ann Romney’s Coffee With the Nation in Her $1000 T-Shirt
If you use your wife to humanize you and to help relate to the average American, you might want to remind her before sitting down for coffee with the nation NOT to wear her $990 t-shirt.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Mitt "Man Without a Face" vs. Rick, the "Victorian Scourge"
Witness the residue after a week scaring hell out of anybody with even a drop of centrism in them, spewing venom over the mere of existence of contraception and public education.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Stephen Crowley’s Extraordinary Photo of Santorum at an African-American Church
Here is a true "emperor's new clothes" moment, not to mention a brilliant example of the photojournalist refusing to play along.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: "Occupy" Flag Burning Photo as Extreme Prejudice
The photo almost everybody saw. I guess it's hard to conclude anything other than the fact that the Occupy movement must have decided to torch itself.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Take-Aways on the Video Showing Marines Urinating on Taliban
I honestly don't understand the pixelization.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Occupy: End of the Camping Trip?
Is this the beginning of the end, or just the end of the beginning for Occupy Wall Street?
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: As Agitators Occupy Occupy, Will Media Call It Out?
Shame on the Sacramento Bee for attributing the violence to Occupy protesters when the chaos was clearly the responsibility of an outside contingent of black bloc agitators.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: al-Awlaki: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
I am especially interested in this photo -- and the opportunity for us to study it and think about it -- since the Administration "predator-droned" Anwar al-Awlaki into the ground on Friday. (Yes, going forward, I recognize "predator drone" ...
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: The Symmetry of Bush Perry
Looking at Bush and Perry, I don't think you get the sense at all they are clones as much as you get the feeling -- that they are both players.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: The Obama Bus As Metaphor
If people can't stop talking about the Obama campaign bus, the question is why?
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Really, Bachmann Sex Act With Corn Dog?
Editor Toby Harnden posted this Michele Bachmann pornographic fantasy he shot himself in a two-fer piece on the Ames Straw Poll and the Iowa State Fair.

