…art, music, and opinions from Lower Alabama
Someone has taken the time to use modern colorizing and retouching tools to some old Civil War photographs, with breathtaking results–
From the comments: “Probably the most spectacular display of male facial hair growth I’ve ever seen” , heh. For an old Civil War buff (the South is full of ’em) it’s pretty cool to see these gentlemen come to life like this.
That American treasure, Mr. Lileks [James] has issues with one George Lucas, whom he deftly slices and dices with a few well-written sentences. Also, there’s a picture of Jasper the Dog at the end that, if it doesn’t bring a small tear to your eye, you have no heart. I’m just sayin’.
Since everyone else seems to be having at Piers Morgan, shoot, I’ll have a go as well. Here’s Piers at his old pre-CNN job in Merrie Englande doing pretty much what he seems to be doing here:
Back in 2004, Piers Morgan was axed as editor-in-chief of the Daily Mirror, a British tabloid, for publishing photos of British soldiers who appeared to be abusing an Iraqi prisoner. They turned out to be fake.
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Morgan also says he feels “vindicated” and that he has no regrets: “I feel like it was a moral duty … Sometimes you have to make a stand as an editor.”
Nice guy. Hope you never need for those fellows to have your back, Piers.
In all fairness, though, I disagree with those who want to deport him. For one thing, a vocal group from across the pond have started their own petition to please not send him back, they don’t want him. Also, there is that pesky First Amendment- I mean, what’s good for us should be good for him as well.
It also seems to be a good thing, to me at least, to have him around to remind us of why those shots were fired at Concord not all that long ago.
via the Blogfather