Press Photos

I got these photos from a friend as a mail forward and I thought why not post it down here.

Disclaimer: Some photos may be disturbing.

1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States . Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.

January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.

1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns himself to death protesting the government’s torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.

1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments in Columbia.

1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.

1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietcong soldier.

February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shoots a young man,whom he suspects to be a Viet Cong soldier..

1973. A few seconds before Chile ’s elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.

1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses in New York.

1980. A child in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionary holding onto him.

February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the Parliament building in Spain .

The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe.

1982. The beginning of it all…. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut , Lebanon .

1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.

1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms.

1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.

2001. An Afghani refugee child’s body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan .

2002. Soldiers and villagers in IRan are digging graves for the victims of the earthquake.

A kid holds his father’s clothes before he is buried.

2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.

How not to be an idiot

I was reading this article by Karan Thapar and I must say it is hilarious. Check it out.

Well, blow me down if the Supreme Court hasn’t ventured into  this territory. They’ve defined the word idiot and I wonder what you make of  their incredible definition. Here it is:

“An idiot is one who is of non-sane memory from his birth, by a perpetual infirmity, without lucid intervals; and those are said to be idiots who cannot count (to) 20, or tell the days of the week or who do not know their fathers or mothers or the like.”

Mystifying as this definition may be for most of us, it’s quite  frankly excellent news for those you and I call idiots. By this definition, they  definitely are not. Indeed, by this definition it’s very hard for any one to be  an idiot. In fact, I would go one step further, by this definition the Supreme  Court has made the world idiot-free!

Now I don’t particularly like the guy, but he certainly has the ability to entertain you. Just what you want from a guy who comes so often on TV.