Photo Dump


Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf addresses a join session of Congress, while Don’t Care and Not Interested stare off into space behind her. Someday, here in the Land of Opportunity, maybe we’ll even get a black female president of our very own! (AFP/Paul J. Richards)


Yeesh—an FBI sweatshirt made in China. The actual caption read, “The US current account deficit widened to a colossal new high of 804.9 billion dollars in 2005 as consumers binged on cheap imported goods, the government said.” Consumers including the government, apparently. (AFP/File/Brendan Smialowski)


Awww. How cute is that? I couldn’t help posting it; the cockles of my heart needed warming. “A three-month-old Southern Tamandua, also known as an anteater, walks during a press preview at the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo March 13, 2006. The baby Southern Tamandua was born last November, the first time an anteater has been borne and raised at an aquarium or a zoo in the country, an aquarium official said.” (REUTERS/Issei Kato)

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