"If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody." - Agatha Christie

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Bollywood star held in U.S. airport, fans outraged - "Indian Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan said he felt angry and humiliated after he was detained and questioned at a U.S. airport, sparking an uproar in India among his fans... "I was really hassled perhaps because of my name being Khan. These guys just wouldn't let me through," he said in a text message to reporters in India... [Khan] had just finished a month-long shoot in the United States for his upcoming film "My Name is Khan," which is about a Muslim man's experience with racial profiling."
I'm not the only one who finds this a suspicious coincidence; He's lucky he's Indian. If he was white and got held he wouldn't be able to blame racism.

Bob Dylan Detained By Cops Week After Gates, Story Buried Until Now - "Exactly one week after the highly-publicized arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates stirred a national discussion on race relations, legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was detained by police officers in a "low-income, predominantly minority neighborhood" in Long Branch, New Jersey...
The police officer drove up to Dylan, who was wearing a blue jacket, and asked him his name. According to Woolley, the following exchange ensued:
"What is your name, sir?" the officer asked.
"Bob Dylan," Dylan said.
"OK, what are you doing here?" the officer asked.
"I'm on tour," the singer replied...
The officers thanked him for his cooperation."
The cop didn't know who Bob Dylan was, and who he was messing with!

Cabinet drops ‘race’ from official forms - "Despite the sharpening racial debate in the country, the Najib Administration’s move to push 1 Malaysia to unify its 27 million citizens of various ethnicity has received a boost with the Cabinet’s agreement to drop “race” from most official forms and documents."
Malaysia Boleh!

Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA - "You've committed your life to Jesus. You know you're saved. But when the Rapture comes what's to become of your loving pets who are left behind? Eternal Earth-Bound Pets takes that burden off your mind. We are a group of dedicated animal lovers, and atheists. Each Eternal Earth-Bound Pet representative is a confirmed atheist, and as such will still be here on Earth after you've received your reward. Our network of animal activists are committed to step in when you step up to Jesus."

Woman to woman: Protests of anti-gay lecturer say much about political correctness - "On-campus political correctness has gotten so bad that unpopular speech is suppressed, and students no longer learn how to navigate a world in which others disagree. This dynamic has only gotten worse since my Harvard policy classes 15 years ago, when the few conservative students frequently shut up in the face of withering derision during class "debates." The liberal majority was left believing that they knew how to think through issues, never realizing they had simply learned how to silence dissent. But that approach doesn't fly in the real world -outside academic and media enclaves, that is - and students suffer if they don't learn that reasonable people truly can disagree without being "bigoted.""

The 5 Creepiest Sex Scenes in Comics - "Who wouldn't want to have genitals the size of a fire truck? Let us tell you who wouldn't: women. Comic book artists have been smuggling giant vaginas into comics for quite a long time. Usually by drawing things that are not vaginas but have the shape of vaginas. For instance the interdimensional gate from the pages of Hawkgirl you can see above. To open it you have to buy her dinner first and from some place fancy."

In China, DNA tests on kids ID genetic gifts, careers - "There has been speculation China's basketball hero, Yao Ming, was born of an arranged marriage between two well-known basketball players, in hopes of bearing an athletic superstar. Yao and his family have denied these reports. In an autobiography, Yao wrote that his parents actually discouraged him from playing the sport... "I want to be the president of China," said three-year-old girl, Liu Xiao Liao. "Then people will be scared of me.""

Telephone Terrorist - "At 4:15 AM on a recent Tuesday, on a quiet, darkened street in Windsor, Ontario, a man was wrapping up another long day tormenting and terrorizing strangers on the telephone. Working from a sparsely furnished two-bedroom apartment in a ramshackle building a block from the Detroit River, the man, nicknamed "Dex", heads a network of so-called pranksters who have spent more than a year engaged in an orgy of criminal activity--vandalism, threats, harassment, impersonation, hacking, and other assorted felonies and misdemeanors--targeting U.S. businesses and residents."

How not to write a sex scene - "He broke free with muscular ease, unhooked my bra with composed expertise, found my nipple and flicked his tongue back and forth until it went hard. His towel fell away. Sebastian's erect member was so big I mistook it for some sort of monument in the centre of a town. I almost started directing traffic around it. He rolled me sideways on to my back and, in one flowing motion, my tracksuit and panties were down, lassoing one ankle. His fingers edged up my thigh and then plunged inside me. My legs yielded to the weight of his body and I wrapped them around his hips, tugging him against me with a pang of hunger I hadn't felt for so long"
Addendum: Bad sex writing!