Archive for August, 2006
fauxtography
Last week, Charles Johnson from the Little Green Footballs blog site, exposed a Reuters photo depicting clouds of smoke over buildings in Beirut as being altered. The photo, taken by photographer Adnan Hajj, who worked for Reuters since the early 90s, used the Photoshop clone tool to reproduce smoke, making the image seem more intense [...]
primaries semi-update
The bad news is that outspoken and embattled Representative Cynthia McKinney lost her primary race in Georgia. The good news is that so did Bush patsy Joe Lieberman, who will be replaced on the November ballot in Connecticut by tough-talking liberal Ned Lamont. More good news, from this side of the political spectrum, is that [...]
save 1-800-SUICIDE
1-800-SUICIDE, a suicide prevention hotline which two millions teenagers have called over the last eight years, among which many were part of the LGBT community, is in danger of losing its funding from the government as the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA), a federal agency, plans to operate its own suicide prevention [...]
american blackout
Georgia Democrat, black congresswoman and outspoken critic of the Bush administration and the War on Terror Cynthia McKinney is facing heated Republican-orchestrated opposition in the primaries this week, which is no surprise. The details of the campaign against her are included in a New York Times article/review of American Blackout, the recently released documentary about [...]
get thee to youth hostel now!
The recently proposed Abe Lincoln Study Abroad Act seeks to increase the number of American students studying abroad to one million. That’s a five-fold increase over 2003-2004, when 191 000 American students studied overseas. Watch out world! Imagine the expanded expat scene in Bali!
In an open letter to the President, Dick Durbin, senator from Illinois [...]
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