Can two be classed as a set? This isn't the first street art "R" that I've shot... although I don't like my chances of finding another one...It's been an odd end to a very long and somewhat odd week... originally I was supposed to head into town for an opening at the 5000 Gallery... but I just couldn't be bothered after being out for the last three nights. Actually, this bit of street art is one that I spotted last night before Josh Earl.Turns out it was a better plan to stay in... *evil grin*Although that ...
A new political PAC called Fight Back New York has set up shop. The group aims to strategically replace anti-equality NY senators who voted against same-sex marriage with pro-LGBT senators. The group is non partisan and will be targeting both democrats and republicans who voted against marriage.Sign up, donate, and tell friends to participate with Fight Back New York.
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France's Association De Défence Contre Le Tabac and Les Droits des Non-Fumeurs collaborated with ad agency BDDP & Fils on this striking campaign. The ads suggest that smoking is being a slave to tobacco by showing young guys and girls kneeling down in a simulated forced oral sex scenario with the cigarette assuming the role of the penis.
Is it just me, or might this make a small portion of the population take up smoking? (via Homotography via Sticky, link NSFW)
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Source: guardian.co.uk - 24 Feb
By Alan Travis
Home Office ministers are to opt out of a European directive which lays down minimum standards for the treatment of asylum claims because it would mean abandoning a fast-track process that leads to hundreds of asylum seekers being detained every year.
The decision has been criticised by immigration lawyers and peers who believe the detention of asylum seekers at Yarl's Wood and Harmondsworth removal centres "under the detained fast-track" procedure leads to rushed and unfair decisions because there is no time to gather evidence.
The fast-track asylum procedure was introduced in 2003 and ...