In this shot from our White House Photo Blog, the First Lady stares down about 50,000 calories. Mmmmm…donuts.:
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1,000 Words: Flipped-Out Over Snow Edition
1,000 Words: Protest Edition
1,000 Words: Snow Day Edition
This one, from our White House Photo Blog, was taken a few days back, but there’s plenty more of the same today:
UPDATE: From commenter michaelfury:
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with
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1,000 Words: Snowpocalypse Edition
I’m still out of the country, trying to figure out how I’m going to get back to DC, now that the airports are all shut down. But I thought this photo, from our White House Photo Blog, might elicit a few creative captions over this snowbound weekend. Are there plaques on the other chairs at the table? What do you think it says on Biden’s? …
1,000 Words: Sidewalk Edition
From our White House Photo Blog:
Haiti in Photographs
For much of my first week in Haiti I traveled with Life Magazine photographer Keith Marlowe. We met through TIME/Life folks in Miami and probably somewhat foolhardily drove nine hours from Santo Domingo into the unknown that was Port-au-Prince less than 72-hours after the devastating 7.0 earthquake. He has today a gallery up of his work …
1,000 Words: Headgear Edition
1,000 Words: Horror in Haiti
1,000 Words: Vladimir and Dmitry’s Excellent Adventure
TIME.com has a surreal photo essay on Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s ski vacation together:
1,000 Words: Black Helicopter Edition
1,000 Words: Happy New Year Edition
Try as I might to keep my string going, I could find no photos of Richard Nixon celebrating the New Year. Except for this one, which really doesn’t count, because it’s Chinese New Year.
But we do have this one of how the shamans of Peru are marking the occasion. (For more of an explanation, go to our White House Photo Blog.)
1,000 Words: Merry Christmas Edition
Merry Christmas to all our Swampland readers!
And for your own Christmas reading, here’s some new insight into Dickens.