Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

who asked them?


These people photographed in front of the White House have become the symbolic face of opposition to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." I placed a few of the most renowned warriors and military leaders with them. Alexander the Great, Hadrian, the Sacred Band of Thebes and the Hoplites, generally, all managed success at war while being homosexual.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Same mood different century


. Kathe Kollwitz's Peasant Uprising never loses its relevance. I've connected it here to the current anti-incumbent mood of the voters. Forget record of service. Forget the corrupting influence of the system. Let's just throw those bums and bumettes out.