This is just funny. And lazy. And oh so very embarrassing for the Chinese.

Full post at Telegraph

Some things are irrefutable: the sun rises in the east, it sets in the west and Buddhist monks are above corruption. Or so we thought.

(full post at Washington Post) Police and revenue officials are tracking about $777,000 found in the Gyuto monastery, the home of Ugyen Thinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, said D.S. Minhas, director general of police in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. [...] Indian media have been carrying reports that the Karmapa could be a Chinese agent sent to India to become a leader of Tibetan Buddhists who have made their home in the northern Indian town of Dharmsala.

That’s what Sharad Sharma, a development cartoonist is doing in India. And he’s looking to raise $8000 to be mentored at the Unreasonable Institute to add his efforts to change in India.

Think comedy does not create discourse? We have two names for you if you need convincing: Jon Stewart and R.K. Laxman

World Comics India from Sharad Sharma on Vimeo.

Using education to scam students of money and their future has got to be among the lowest order of deceit one can perpetrate on a fellow human being.

Seems more than 90% of the students at Tri-Valley were from the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. More on the story at Mercury News.

We posted the story of a Tucson restaurant that wanted to serve lion meat tacos for $8.75.

The story ends happily. The restaurant has canceled plans to serve the king of the jungle in a taco because it received “many threats on the safety of our restaurant, our families, our customers and our vendors,” its owner said Monday night.

Exotic Meats, the online store run by Anshu Pathak also seems to have taken lion meat off the website. We’re hoping this means lion meat is off their menu as well.

All’s well that ends well.