Pssst ... don't mention Photoshop to this guy.

Does this make you feel better or worse about New Albany? There are plausible arguments both ways, and they all make me want to head to the bar.

Thanks to my contributor ... or, thanks for nothing. I'm not sure which is more accurate.

Hammond mayor retracts claim of steakhouse meeting photo (at NWI.com)

A photograph that Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. said shows six Hammond City Council members dining together at a Hessville steakhouse doesn't exist.

Speaking Friday morning during his paid radio program on station WJOB-AM (1230), McDermott said that despite his publicly saying the photograph was in his possession, no such photo ever existed.

McDermott publicly chastised City Council members Anthony Higgs, Kim Poland, Homero "Chico" Hinojosa, Robert Markovich, Kathleen Pucalik and Dan Spitale at last week's council meeting after he said he had photographic proof they attended a meeting with police and fire union officials.

On his program, McDermott said he used the imagined photograph as a "bluff" to get council members to confess they attended the meeting ...

... "I don't really feel I lied. It's a pretty common interrogation technique.".