The other day in the paper I saw a photograph of a politician, an older man. It wasn’t a posed picture; it looked like he didn’t know he was being captured on film.  The snapshot was anything but flattering. Every facial feature pointed downward. His eyes were cast downward. But more than that, his wrinkles and creases seemed to be weighed down, sagging, and his chin, in a giant flattened pout, had rutted into a circle of wrinkled flesh. The picture was so bad that I felt … [Read more...]