The photo credit for this one is easy. It's the caption that stumps me. How do I describe an image that cost me 13 hours in jail and so much more?

Perhaps the loyal viewing audience can help. So let's have a contest.

Channel the ghost of Jonathan Swift. Dwell in the absurdity of an arrest for taking pictures of an elected official, and write a caption - be it witty, caustic, sad or Dadaist or whatever. The best one wins a prize (TBD).

Email entries to ken@the40yearplan.com. I'll post the responses as I receive them, and I'll keep the contest open until my next court date on Jan. 30, when I'll announce a winner. To keep it on the up and up, I won't accept anonymous submissions.

What? You say you won't give your name because you fear that attaching your identity to a contrarian political opinion might land you on a Homeland Security watch list shared and used by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to intimidate, harass and arrest you?

Pshah. Not in America. Link...

O ther than my headline, I really don't have much to say. CTnewsjunkie.com covers the bases:

A freelance journalist, who has worked on political campaigns, was arrested by Hartford Police Wednesday as he took photos of Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s inaugural parade in downtown Hartford.

Ken Krayeske, who worked on Green Party candidate Cliff Thornton’s campaign for governor against Rell, was near the corner of Ford and Pearl Street photographing Rell’s inaugural parade when, according to the police report, he was identified as a “political activist” and a threat to the governor. Krayeske was arrested and charged with breach of peace and interfering with an officer. Link...

P ssst. Hey, tickets to see the Fairy Godmother turn herself into Cinderella are only $150. And don't count on the media to tell you how Gov. Grandma is pulling the transformation off, because emails from Rich Harris, Rell's press secretary, explicitly tell press lapdogs that the info is "*** For Planning Purposes Only -- Not for Broadcast or Publication ***".

Count me as a fan of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who canceled his inaugural shindig. Of course, this was only after the Sunshine State press criticized the $500,000 a plate price tag. But still, he recognized excess. Link...

O ur national nightmare makes many uncomfortable. Standing in line waiting to see President Gerald Ford lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda Sunday morning, Dec. 31, I met Americans who reminisced about days of yore, days before war.Link...

My buddy, a teacher in the Hartford School System, sent me this Christmas Card. He didn't do the grafiti, only the battery powered Christmas lights. How nice.

Thank goodness that not everyone relies on Hallmark to express themselves during the holiday period. This card came from a teacher not too happy with the shabby reporting the Hartford Courant gives to the Hartford Public School System. Link...

The Secret Police following me in Al Hiri, the village directly on the Syrian-Iraqi border, Sept. 2005.

I t took me forever to post, but my magnum opus from the Syrian-Iraqi border is ready for internet consumption. Link…

Bahrain's Ruqaya Al Ghasara celebrates after winning the gold medal in the final of the Women's 200m at the 15th Asian Games on Dec. 15 in Qatar.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

W ow. The sprinter, Ruqaya Al Ghasara, claimed that wearing a hijab - the traditional Islamic head scarf - made her fastest.

Nike might claim that its swoosh on the head gave her the additional speed boost. The immediate juxtaposition of religious symbolism and commercialism jarred me, and it begs the question of what is the winning philosophy here.Link…

The caption in Saturday's New York Times read: "An Iraqi family watched television at home in Basra on Saturday, while a video was shown of Saddam Hussein being led to the gallows. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani)"

T he headline on Dec. 30, 2006 NYTimes.com story by Marc Santora read On the Gallows, Curses for Traitors and U.S.

The photo above adorned it, and in the great image deconstruction tradition of BagNewsNotes, this picture demands some ancillary explanations.

If I didn't read the caption, I'd think that the photo originated in America. The baby has Roman alphabet letters "ABC" on her hat. The television is modern, and the DVD player on top of it belies the image of Iraqi poverty many of may carry. The fact that these average Iraqis have electricity works to dispel the fact that the Iraqi infrastructure is worse today than it was before 2003. Link…