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Controversial film-maker Michael Moore is planning to make a hard-hitting documentary based on US President George W. Bush's handling of the Hurricane Katrina rescue operation. Moore grabbed international acclaim with his scathing 2004 film Fahrenheit 9/11, which studied Bush's handling of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The Oscar winner is now "seriously considering" documenting the catastrophe in America's Gulf Coast region. He tells the New York Daily News, "There is much to be said and done about the man-made annihilation of New Orleans, caused not by a hurricane but by the very specific decisions made by the Bush administration in...

I've seen a lot of great Photoshops of the buses from New Orleans, and thought it would be fun to consolidate them on one thread. Besides, it looks like it's been a while since there was a Photoshop thread.

Just wanted to give a heads up for the North Carolina folks specifically, and fans of the Senator in general.

Two British women who married under Canadian law are taking the government to court today to demand equal rights with heterosexual married couples. Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger, who are university professors, were married in August 2003 after the province of Vancouver gave same-sex couples that right. In Britain they will have the status of a civil partnership when the relevant legislation comes into force in December. But in a challenge thought to be the first of its kind in Europe, they will tell the high court that this amounts to second-class recognition.