PHOTO FINISHED – Thanks to vigilant bloggers, former Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian's fitness to serve an ethically challenged district has been called into question.

As is now legend, Kaloogian's Web site displayed a photograph that purported to show the hum of commerce in downtown Baghdad. (Kaloogian believes, evidently without irony, that the war is going well and it's the liberal press that distorts our perspective of everyday life in Iraq.)

The problem: Kaloogian's photo was taken in Istanbul, not Baghdad. He has admitted the mistake – and in the process received in the local and national media about $1 million worth of free publicity as an Iraq cheerleader.

But wait. There's another error on Kaloogian's Web site.

In a snapshot in his photo gallery, Kaloogian is supposedly standing near Mount Ararat in “Aremenia.” (Most of us know it as as Armenia.)

Thanks to a biblical blogger with an interest in geology, I have learned that the mountain in the photograph is not Mount Ararat, the post-flood landing platform for Noah's Ark.

No, a close analysis of the outcropping's outline proves that Kaloogian is actually posing in the San Pasqual Valley with a snow-capped Mount Palomar in the background. When told of the error, Kaloogian said, “I can't believe it. Somehow photos from my tour of the Wild Animal Park got switched with those taken on the Iraq trip.”