Middle fingers of the month - including Paul McCartney, Elisha Cuthbert, Jimmy Hoffa, Dave Grohl and Joan Rivers

By Mona Goldwater, Gestures Ed.

Our irregular roundup of middle fingers, some belonging to celebs, and some to just regular folk.  Sent in by readers and found in random corners of the Internet. . .

some celeb, but not sure who

Junior gesturer

Joan Rivers

Elisha Cuthbert

Banana Guy

Bumper Sticker

Dave Grohl

Jimmy Hoffa gesturing to Robert F. Kennedy in a Senate hearing

Grandpa

X-ray

Paul McCartney to reporters

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Fingers of the month

By Mona Goldwater, Signs & Gestures Ed.

From the net, and reader submissions. . .fingers of the month is published whenever enough fingers have arrived.

Jayne County

Fred Rogers

Jack Nicholson

Molly Ringwald

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Finger of the day No. 2: four political fingers - President Obama, Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller, President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

By Pablo Fanque & Mona Goldwater


The photo of Nelson Rockefeller is one of our favorite political photos ever.  It was 1976, and  by then he knew he would not be the nominee for president in 1976.  So, Nelson kicked back and lived the good life as the Vice President.

At a rally, a heckler was hucking verbal garbage at him, and Rocky leaned across the podium and gave him a righteous finger. The photo appeared in newspapers everywhere the next day.  People were offended  a man of such high office and supposed dignity could resort to a crude gesture like the finger.  The rest of us mostly thought it was just awesome a politician could show exactly what he was feeling. 

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Middle finger of the day: four musical fingers - Kurt Cobain, Willie Nelson, Tommy Lee, Madonna

 Kurt Cobain, Willie Nelson, Tommy Lee, and Madonna giving the finger to the camera (or camera-person)...

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Our thoughts on bi-partisanship after reading Krugman's editorial in yesterday morning's New York Times

By Pablo Fanque,
National Affairs Editor

I had planned to write a long, learned, disquisition on Krugman's Op-ed piece in yesterday's New York Times. This is one of the most depressing essays I've ever read. . .mainly because it was all true. And these are the people with whom we are supposed to forge a bond of cooperation? I don't think so. The G.O.P. should be happy with the fact we aren't about to embark on a massive Necktie Party, or pogrom, or a nation-wide Party Cleansing; God knows, they've earned it. As far as cooperating, I think we should "just say no," unless it is most specifically in our best interest. This collage by fellow editor Jack Brummet captures my feelings, exactly, on how to proceed with bipartisanship in today's climate:


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