Pic of the Day

Well..pic of the next 15 minutes, anyway.

Then they can drag bankers out of the sewers and shoot them in the head.

If it was just about the armed conflict, it would more likely to have been snapped a month ago.

K&R

For one thing, I lack the skill. Here's the location of the image.

"msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss-110303-libya-tabbed/ss-111003-oct-libya/ss-111018-libya-04.grid-7x2.jpg"

(for some reason the link won't embed)

I'm not sure just what message was being sent. Lots of ways to look at it, I suppose.

I zoomed in a couple of times, and if it's a photoshop, it's a very skilled one:

- The letters that reoccur (a, o, y) are not identical from one appearance to another, so it could not have been done using a prepackaged font.

- The final letters of "Wall Street" are increasingly crammed together, as if the writer was running out of room.

- The letters seem to conform to the bends in the metal. In some cases the paint seems to have dripped slightly at the bottom of a letter -- for example, the L's in "Libya" and "Wall." But those drips are most pronounced when the bottom of the letter is on the smooth part of the metal and seem to be cut off when the bottom of the letter coincides with a crease in the metal.

- The tip of the soldier's gun partly covers the "W" of Wall Street, and there is a hole in the metal that cuts into the "w" of Tomorrow.

So if it is a photoshop, it's a fairly complex one. It would have had to be done by hand and carefully designed to give the look of actual graffiti. And who would have gone to all that trouble?

in a propaganda-drenched war to unseat a populist and install al Qaeda?