My hair is in the process of changing from blond to brown. This does not mean that every strand of hair is uniformly blondish brown. Rather, it means that I have blond hairs, brown hairs, and numerous in between. What I find interesting is how different my hair looks in different situations. For instance, as noted below, when it's short it's more blond, as it grows longer it darkens. Of course, lighting plays an even bigger roll. People who look at the picture to the left would say "That's reddish brown" and the second "blond, for the most part" when long or short it's neither brown nor blond and there is no red whatsoever. What's interesting is that small things such as how I comb it make a difference. Which hairs are exposed determined the color. (for what it's worth, my interest in my hair color is based on an ongoing debate with my friend Silk, who assures me that it is unquestionably "dark brown.")

Liberals are digging into George W. Bush because he is allegedly coloring his hair. The proof is in two pictures, one from November where it's gray, the other from a day or two back and it's brown. You don't have to look at the pictures too hard to see that the lighting is quite different.

Jane Galt:

Well, my first thought was "He's dying his hair gray?" Because I'd just watched him on the State of the Union, and I recalled it as pretty, y'know, gray.

My roommate and I watched the SotU and I can't remember who commented first, but we were in such agreement that it didn't matter. We both noticed how much President Bush has aged in the last two years. In controlled lighting, his hair was graying. It's not completely gray, but it's obviously in (very fast) transition. As his hair turns gray (much like mine turning brown), it means that he has gray hairs, brown hairs, and some in between. Therefore, depending on the lighting, the length, the comb, and how is hair is feeling on any given day, there's going to be some variation. Jane helpfully links up to a number of pictures in which Bush's hair looks quite gray. More gray, in fact, than in the "gray hair" picture that the original poster, Chris Something, uses. Drudge even commented on his hair color recently, pointing out that it's becoming gray.

It's not unusual for the Presidency to do that. Clinton's transition to gray didn't take long and by the end, it was quite apparent that he'd gone from one of the youngest looking presidents into an old man. Bush, about the same age as Clinton (and will thus leave office older than Clinton was) is likely in for the same makeover.