Slog - Comments on Death Today http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/myth_today According to the editors of Reuters, this is one of the "best pictures from the last 24 hours": Beyond the echo of Roland Barthes' famous essay "Myth Today" (1954), this image of a U.S. soldier--from the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment--patrolling eastern Baghdad yesterday, Jan 30, is deeply sad. There is no greatness, no nobility, no hope here, just a nothingness stemming from the fact that the unfortunate black man and the unfortunate Arabs could by now, by today, Jan 31, be as dead as that flower.... Copyright 2008 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:02:04 -0800 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:06:17 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by kinaidos O Rose, thou art sick!
The Invisible worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of Crimson joy;
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/myth_today#c605272 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/myth_today#c605272 Media Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:26:49 -0800 Comment by Dakota Solberg Such a pessimist...

The reason this is the best picture in the last 24 hours? The liberators of Baghdad are finally being greeted with smiles and flowers! God Bless America!

]]> Dakota Solberg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/myth_today#c605288 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/myth_today#c605288 Media Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:55:09 -0800 Comment by Princess Caroline That troop would gotten rid of the flower or eaten it if I was his squad leader. Nothing like someone wearing a big red target to get the day off to a good start.

]]> Princess Caroline http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/myth_today#c605352 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/myth_today#c605352 Media Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:06:17 -0800