Today's LA Times cover: inspired juxtaposition?

Richard Metzger sent this around today, saying: "Is this what the bailout really looks like???"

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Doran

I think it’s just symbolic of the LA Times itself.
Roach

I think I see orcs.
Alex Mingoia

How sensationalist. Just how I keep seeing newspapers with pictures of the great depression. Sorry, but nobody is standing in line to get food. Grocery stores are full of food, and the prices haven’t been changing much. This is in no way parallel to the great depression.
- Antinous
  
  Grocery stores are full of food, and the prices haven’t been changing much.
  
  How’s the weather on Mars, anyway? Stores in some areas are rationing staples such as rice, and food prices have nearly doubled in the last two years.
Dr.Arthur

I saw that this morning at the store. I chuckled a little. Glad to see it was not only me that thought it was funny.
Kieran O’Neill

Looks to me like a deliberate evocation of the dustbowl – which was remarkably coincident with the Great Depression.
Robert

Here’s another picture of the bailout:

http://nobailout.ytmnd.com/
zuzu

I thought the cloud would be more mushroom-shaped.
mherdeg

“LA Times,” please, not “LA Time’s.”

I think “LA” is OK though (rather than “L.A.”).
Johnny Cat

The Mist comes to mind. Or id4.
ispinyarns

@Johnny Cat: OMG, it DOES look like ID4! I love that movie.
Although I think we’re doing a fine job of stripping our planet of resources without the help of aliens. :(
brownb0x

i saw this with my wife this afternoon and drew the same conclusion initially. horrible (or intentional?) heading/body formatting.
dbarak

There’s a problem with the picture. I see lots of smoke but no mirrors.
wolfiesma

That’s a pretty epic front page. But its not like the LATimes is making this stuff up. It is actually going down like this. Economic and environmental catastrophe.

Did anyone notice the charity that Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr. were doing for Hurricane Ike relief in Galveston? I want to help, but I just can’t put my name on anything Bush…

Anyway, fire, flood…. global warming hits home.