RELATIVELY Speaking

• 13 YEAR OLD GETS 90 LASHES FOR CELL PHONE A 13 year-old Saudi girl is to receive 90 lashes after being caught with a mobile camera phone. The girl, who hasn’t been named, was also sentenced to two months in jail by a court in the city of Jubail. God Bless Saudi Arabia.
• CONVENIENT DEATH The death of Polar Bears in Northern Canada and their turn to cannibalization has been called convenient by Republicans when used as evidence of the many problems that come with Global Warming. Gotta Love Right Wight Thinking.
• GAY SUDAN Despite the progress of the last decade, it can be difficult to be gay in North American Society,even more so for those out of the closet. Ali, a gay male from Sudan however, has just a bit more to deal with.
• MILLIONS SHAVE DOWN BELOW FOR V-DAY Flushed with anticipation and ready to emerge from another long, cold winter, millions of Americans participated this week in the annual tradition of trimming their pubic regions in time for Valentine’s Day. Only once a year?
• THROAT SLASHING AN ACCIDENT Police are no longer investigating an incident where a man was found unconscious with his throat slashed, inside the fenced-off parking lot of a service center. Apparently, the knife-wound was simply a workplace accident. WTF?