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Saturday, January 20, 2007

The Enemy at Home; What's Left


Working for the man sucks. You know what sucks more? Having this come across your desk and having to design it. And then having the art director tell you that putting a burnt flag on the jacket is probably the best idea s/he has to represent "the cultural left and its responsibility for 9/11," and that burning flags is really what liberals are all about.

Some reviews, etc. of this book:

Salon
The NY Times
Random House

And here's one from across the pond:


Excerpt here.

2 comments:

Mariko said...

notice, though, that the flag started burning from the right.

Juan Carlos said...

Upon closer inspection, the flas isn't really burnt, it's the paper that's on top of the flag.