Mullfoto of the Day

On election day in Ukraine we went out of the city we were in, Kharkiv, and headed out to view some rural precincts. As we were heading toward the Russian border, I thought it would be interesting to go to the Russian border.

Our driver stopped a couple of hundred meters away and as I (and my translator) walked up, two Russian border guards stepped out to see what was what.

I waved, smiled, and announced I was an American.

They neither waved nor smiled.

I asked if I could take a photo but my translator told me they said there were "extremely no photographs allowed" as this whole region was a "strategic area."

I heard the sound of our car making a 17-point "K" turn.

There was nothing there. In fact, when the next ice age starts, this is where the glacier will be born.

We walked back to our car which, by now, was facing away from the border. I got in and told the driver not to drive away until I told him to. I took this photo by pointing my camera at the right outside mirror.

I hummed the "Mission: Impossible" theme to myself for the rest of the day.

Here's a close up of the sign in the middle of the border crossing, digitally flipped because the original photo was taken into a mirror.

Catchy Caption of the Day

Actual Caption:

Former presidential candidate John Edwards answers a student's question after delivering a speech entitled 'Beautiful America' to students at Brown University in Providence, R.I. Tuesday, March 10, 2009. It is one of Edwards' first public appearances since his admission of infidelity last summer.

The National Enquirer had it right all along. He was the father of that little girl.

Had Edwards been a Republican, every news outlet in the nation would have jumped on the story.

(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)