Today it's Asia in the News

The Taiwanese have elected themselves a pro-Beijing opposition candidate for president.  Holi, the Spring Festival, is being celebrated throughout the Indian subcontinent--they won't feel this unified again till the Monsoon rains come at the end of summer.  Arthur C. Clark, who only just a few years ago announced he'd been queer all his life, died and was obsequied in Sri Lanka, at the age of ninety. Would it've helped if it'd been a "Gay Space Odyssey"?  Dunno.  I saw it when it came out (stoned on acid of course) on a double bill with Lonesome Cowboys; it seemed to fit. Many a rose-lipped lad lost his cool over Keir Dullea, who was hot.