Once upon a time, Clayton James Cubitt took fashion photos like this for a living. Once upon a time as in a month ago.
His family didn’t have much – his Mom lived in a trailer, earnt $6.95 an hour giving out food stamps in a hardscrabble town.
In Louisiana.
When his family was homeless, and the [...]

Sometimes a satirist just hits the nail on the head.
Here is a compassionate look at Michael Brown, the genius who ran FEMA.
He will be nominated for the Supreme Court next.
And here’s a press conference with Bush that showed me I didn’t really understand the full meaning of the world “stupefy” until five minutes [...]

The Guardian suggested just after the refugees were taken out of the New Orleans Superdome that the stories of slaughter were incorrect.
Now NOLA, the Times-Picayune website, says this:
“Jimmie Fore, vice president of the state authority that runs the Convention Center, stayed in the building with a core group of 35 employees until Sept. 1, [...]

The surface tension of water supports a metal paperclip. By photographing it using a grille in front of the light source, the deformation of the water caused by the clip’s weight can be seen. (¬©Robert Anderson )
This image is part of this year’s “Visions of Science Photographic Awards. The competition is sponsored by Novartis and [...]

Crikey supports Mark Latham in his current berserker avatar, on the grounds that he is telling the truth, and that the media is putting the boot in because its parasitic and corrupt relationship with government is being revealed.
Here Crikey has a terrific transcript of his encounter with an Adelaide ABC journalist. He may have been [...]

The Australian today ran an op-ed article which is a clear attack on SBS. It may stand on its own merits as an isolated event, in which case we can look forward to a defence of SBS which is just as prominent, linked with a logo on the front page of the website.
However, the [...]

Here is a wonderful collection of African masks, recorded around 1976, in Burkina Faso.
This I love:

Benny Salas rides his bike on a surf-covered pier in Galveston, Texas as Hurricane Rita approaches September 23, 2005.(Rick Wiking/Reuters)
“Though I have at times regretted staying here for the last few days of Hurricane-induced drudgery, I am glad I missed that disorganized, badly-planned and badly executed fiasco on the evac routes. I would just as [...]

An absolutely deadpan BBC:
“A technique to make sperm glow green could aid research into infertility, say scientists.
An Oxford University team extracted a gene that manufactures a green protein in a jellyfish and used it to create green sperm in hamster testicles.
Hamsters have similar sperm to humans and therefore provide an ideal model for studying human [...]

If New Orleans present agony is about race and class, are we in for a wave of ethnic cleansing?
Here’s Der Spiegel:
“The more affluent, mostly white residents are coming back. The poorer, mostly African-American neighborhoods are still under water. How New Orleans deals with its less fortunate residents will determine the new face and [...]