Photographic Critique –

At the No Kings Rally in Arvada, Colorado on March 28, 2026, this woman sat comfortably in her chair, relaxed and smiling, holding her “Small Dick Energy” sign featuring Pete Hegseth with the quiet confidence of someone who has already won the argument. 

No rage, no performance — just a woman, a sign, and a truth she was perfectly at ease with. The sign says what a lot of people are thinking about a man who conducts multi-daily Fox News style propaganda briefings from the Pentagon.

Pete Hegseth — has somehow landed as our Secretary of Defense, a title that should carry weight.

Thoughts – 

Listening to Pete Hegseth’s multi-daily morning briefings, I feel as if I’m tuned into Fox News propaganda — delivered by a man radiating small dick energy.

It brings to mind Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and his 1962 novel, Mother Night — the fictional memoir of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American who becomes a Nazi propagandist while secretly spying for the U.S. during World War II. A man with no true identity, arriving at his defining conclusion: “We are what we pretend to be.”

Peter Hegseth — our Secretary of Defense — is on his third wife, whom he pursued while his second wife was pregnant, and while he was facing a sexual assault allegation involving a woman in a hotel room. This is the man , if you can call him a man, now masquerading as a Patriot, a Christian, and a Leader.

Nothing humorous about these people and their false sense of grandeur.

Like Judas of old

You lie and deceive

A world war can be won

You want me to believe

But I see through your eyes

And I see through your brain

Like I see through the water

That runs down my drain

— Bob Dylan, 1963​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Photographer of the day – Lee Miller

(The photographer Lee Miller was more of a man then peter hegseth will ever be – )

‘The Indestructible Lee Miller’ Celebrates a Daring Surrealist and War Photographer –

In Lee Miller’s uncommon life, there are two celebrated periods. The first began in 1929, when, at 22, she apprenticed with the Surrealist photographer Man Ray and modeled for him in innovative portraits and radical nudes. The second was during World War II, when Miller was one of five accredited female photojournalists accompanying American troops into liberated concentration camps, documenting atrocities.

“The Indestructible Lee Miller,” on view through Feb. 14 at NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., focuses tightly on how Miller’s experiences in front of the camera, a conventional role for a striking woman, shaped her radically subjective approach to making her own photos — particularly in how she staged herself in Hitler’s private bathtub in Munich on the day he committed suicide during the Allied siege of Berlin.

(NYT –Hilarie M. Sheets Oct. 27, 2015).

Lee Miller in a photograph she staged in Hitler’s bathtub in Munich in 1945.