The Year We Were Exposed
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Friday, December 10, 2010
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The cover of Frank Foer’s last issue as editor of The New Republic:
Yikes.
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After all these years she hasn’t let herself go. Admirable.
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Did the torch and tablet make it through the X-Ray scan? And how come she’s wearing her diadem during this scan? Do we know what it might conceal?
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Is the “Yikes.” because of the content of the image, or because of the metaphor it represents?
Personally, I think visual metaphors such as this are necessary to illustrate how authorities such as the TSA think that just because we have purchased a ticket to travel on an airplane we have somehow given up our Fourth Amendment rights (as was stated by a TSA manager in one airport).
Sometimes you need to be a bit shocking to make people realize the insidious nature of many policies of government agencies.
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Funny how they use the photo that was proven to be a photoshopped version of a naked model.
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My son has a t-shirt with the frontal view. Wore it to my daughter’s recital the other night. I noticed only after we got there.
Kids. Can’t live with ‘em, can’t chase them around with a baseball bat.
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