The Huffington Post Knows Cancer Is Bad, Right?

Web-journalism evangelist—and Huffington Post admirer—Jeff Jarvis has announced on his blog that he has prostate cancer. We wish him well. So does HuffPo, we imagine. But isn't that a weird photo to choose to illustrate that story?
When it gets cropped as an internal ad, it looks even weirder:

There are plenty of other photos of him out there, many in the public domain. Get well soon, Jeff.