San Antonio Express-News photo journalist Bob Owen, believing the photograph of Dawson had been altered, notified AP, which agreed and pulled down the photo immediately. AP sent a “photo elimination” notice to its subscribers nationwide that said the photo was “digitally altered and does not accurately reflect the scene.” … Their poses, body types, placement [...]

Somewhere, nestled in-between a food court and a fashionable shoe store, a new kind of propaganda awaits the consciousness of impressionable (and bored) teenagers: the new US Army Experience Center. Pay no attention to the man (you know, the one with the gun, orders to seek and destroy, Modular Lightweight Load-bearing Equipment, et cetera) behind [...]

In honor of today’s dubious distinction, I will be publishing a handful of posts which have been incubating for the last few weeks. But first, a word from our sponsor:

Apparently this was news to the Department of Defense: the corpses of US soldiers have been incinerated aside the equally world-weary bodies of beloved pets. The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of U.S. service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in a Delaware facility that also cremates pets . [...]

The sun is coming down in the Western sky, sending a last wave of orange light over the housetops’ gleaming, symmetrical rows of asphalt shingles. In the lush green backyards of the callous middle-class glow coals saturated with the drippings of freshly seared meat while men in bleached white t-shirts stand over grills, waving metal [...]