Noonan and the Gilded Age

Peggy Noonan.
If you’re a lowly wage-slave don’t
even try to talk to her.

So there’s this woman. Peggy Noonan. Writes political books and is a political Conservative. Rich. She writes columns for the Wall Street Journal. Recently she wrote an article called "Rich Man, Poor Man" which started out as a promising piece about the "Gilded Age", how the super rich are richer than ever, the gap between the rich and the poor is staggering, and that this age of greed and money has lead to higher instances of social rudeness.

Then it degraded into a tirade about minimum wage workers.

It’s hard to tell if this is just extremely subtle satire about rich fucks looking down on anyone else who isn’t a rich fuck, or if she’s just one of these batshit crazy right-wingers who have gotten so far out there that they actually come full circle and satirize themselves without even realizing it. Seeing as the article continues into some nonsensical pseudo-intellectual rant about cellphones, I’m going to write my article as if it’s the latter and dissect the meat of this piece.

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Art and Big Photograhpy Update!

As usual here’s the recent uploads to the site! Alot of photography this time.

Shopped Magazines Get Scary

Stunning, perfect, flawless faces grinning at you from covers of magazines that profess to tell you all the secrets to losing weight and looking beautiful and trim. You want to look just like the woman gracing the page don’t you? Or you want to meet a woman who looks just like her? Unfortunately, she doesn’t really look like that.

Photoshop is a powerful program and someone who is skilled with it can deceptively manipulate photos in such a way that you might not even know what is and isn’t real. As someone whose done photo retouching on a freelance basis I know all the tricks, but what’s going too far is up to the retoucher, or the client in some cases. Well many magazines definitely go too far in my opinion. They take already thin, fit, beautiful models and people and shave 15 to 20 pounds off them, airbrushing out any freckles or other "imperfections" in their skin, upping the contast until their face is ghostly and washed out and of course removing any wrinkles in the face at all, even the ones everyone is supposed to have. Like, you know, eyelids. And charming ones like laugh lines.

Recently there was an article about Faith Hill on the cover of Redbook and about how heavily manipulated her photo was. So how did they take an already attractive 39 year old women and make her look like an anorexic 16 year old girl? Click "read more" to find out (or… uh… go to the article I just linked to)

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Another “Moral Leader” Caught With a Hooker

What is it about hateful old Conservative Evangelical Christians who dedicate their lives to trying to tell everyone else what to do and hookers? This time it was the President of the Christian Action League another, you guessed it, Christian group who likes to try and effect laws and legislation with the doctrine of their religion. Luckily these screwballs keep their efforts focused on North Carolina rather than the entire United States.

I wasn’t planning on doing another blog post about religion so damn soon, but holy crap! These guys just won’t stop giving me material. As if the whole D.C. Madam scandal wasn’t enough!

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More Sketchbook Additions

Incase you guys likes sketches. Lookit that! Girls! And… Picasso Man!