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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Picture of the Day
















I'll bet somebody caught hell for this. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)

(PS. With the nuclear history between the US and Russia, I wounder if a big, red, alarming button was such a good idea anyway.)

3 Comments:

  • I wondered what on earth this bit of theater was. Saw this on the tv news in passing, and I figured it was some kind of way to get Clinton actually touching and joking with her Russian counterpart in front of the cameras.

    But the red button symbolism didn't exactly read, did it?

    By Blogger r8r, at 9:08 AM  

  • All concerned seemed pretty amused,but, yeah, it seems a very weird iconography.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 12:02 PM  

  • Or at least a less ominous looking button. That looks like a palm slap panic button.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 3:59 PM  

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