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Archive for October, 2009

Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan’s Last Caesar?

• October 31, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Aesthetics, Afghanistan, Pakistan
Tags: Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Nawaz Sharif, Run-off Election

Public Option, the Opt-out and Status Quo Bias

• October 31, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Aesthetics, Health Care
Tags: Behavioral Economic, Cass Sunstein, Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, Opt Out, Public Option, Richard Thaler, Status quo bias

Suicide Bombing and Personhood

• October 28, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Aesthetics, Afghanistan, Paintings and Photography, Pakistan
Tags: Afghanistan, Liberalism, Pakistan, Personhood, Political Theory, Suicide Bombing, Taliban

Pandora’s Folly

• October 27, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Aesthetics, Drawings, Paintings and Photography
Tags: bombing, Car bomb, Iraq, Pandora's chest, triptych

Real Time Thoughts on Meet the Press (October 25, 2009)

• October 25, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Afghanistan, Drawings, Meet the Press, Paintings and Photography
Tags: Health Care, Jane Meyer, Meet the Press, Pakistan, President Obama, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Senator Jon Cornyn, Tavis Smiley

Walter Benjamin, Progressivism and Fascism in Art Production

• October 24, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Aesthetics, Paintings and Photography
Tags: Art criticism, Art making, mixed media, Painting, Photography, Walter Benjamin

Dead Man in Pakistan

• October 22, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Paintings and Photography, Pakistan
Tags: Extrajudicial killings, Painting, Pakistan, Photography, Swat, Taliban

Dead Men in Pakistan–Young Militants and Their Jihad

• October 20, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Paintings and Photography
Tags: Afghanistan, David Rohde, New York Times, Painting, Pakistan, Photography

Gates for Sanity, Run-off Declared Before Onset of Winter

• October 20, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Paintings and Photography
Tags: Afghanistan, New York Times, Painting, Pakistan, Photography. Mixed Media, Secretary Gates

Run-off, Delay and the Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

• October 19, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Drawings, Paintings and Photography
Tags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Painting, Pen and Ink Drawing, Photography, President Obama, Run-off

Real Time Thoughts on Meet the Press (October 18, 2009)

• October 18, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Drawings, Meet the Press, Paintings and Photography
Tags: A Woman's Nation, Center for American Progress, Gender Inequality, Maria Shriver, Meet the Press, Pen and Ink Drawing, Photography, Valerie Jarret

Art and Politics in the Age of Digital Reproduction

• October 17, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Aesthetics, Paintings and Photography
Tags: Art and Reproduction, Painting, Pen and ink, Photography, Spanish Civil War, Walter Benjamin

Kevin Carter, Eadweard Muybridge and Francis Bacon

• October 16, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Paintings and Photography
Tags: Eadweard Muybridge, Francis Bacon, Kevin Carter, mixed media, Painting, pastel, Pen and ink

Why I Endorse a Very Long Engagement in Afghanistan/Pakistan

• October 15, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Afghanistan, Paintings and Photography, Pakistan
Tags: Acrylic, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Gen. McChrystal, George Will, Painting, Pakistan, Pen and ink, Photography, Rory Stewart, Taliban

45,000 Troops to be Deployed, with More Boots in Tow

• October 15, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Afghanistan, Paintings and Photography, Pakistan
Tags: Acrylic, Afghanistan, Gen. McChrystal, Pakistan, Pen and ink, Photography, Troop Deployment

A Very Long Engagement in Afghanistan/Pakistan

• October 12, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Paintings and Photography
Tags: Afghanistan, Counter-insurgency, Painting, Pakistan, Pen and ink, Photography, Swat

Real Time Thoughts on Meet the Press (October 11, 2009)

• October 11, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Afghanistan, Drawings, Meet the Press, Pakistan
Tags: Afghanistan, Gen. Barry McCaffrey, Gen. Richard Myers, Meet the Press, Pakistan, Taliban

Strategy and Politics in Afghanistan and Pakistan (or How to Stop Kicking Ourselves in the Groin and Love the Bomb)

• October 10, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Afghanistan, Drawings, Paintings and Photography, Pakistan
Tags: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Gen. Kayani, Gen. McChrystal, Kerry-Lugar Bill, Pakistan, Peshawar, President Obama, President Zardari, Taliban

On the Af/Pak U.S. Strategy

• October 5, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Afghanistan, Paintings and Photography, Pakistan
Tags: Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Counterinsurgency. Marshall Fahim, Gen. McChrystal, Hamid Karzai, Pakistan, Rory Stewart, Stephen Holmes

Kinda, Sorta Real Time Thoughts on Meet the Press (October 4th, 2009)

• October 5, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Afghanistan, Meet the Press, Paintings and Photography, Pakistan
Tags: Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, David Brooks, Gen. McChrystal, Meet the Press, Pakistan, Pen and Ink Drawing, Photography, Rachel Maddow