BBC ASIA SECTION: Another girl was suspended for wearing a head scarf in Singapore. And I got to it before Andrea See. Awright! (Can you really legislate racial harmony, by the way? My guess is no.) Meanwhile over in Thailand the first female Thai Buddhist monk has been ordained. I can't imagine it'll be that much longer before the Catholics do that too. As for the celibacy thing, in Thailand and in Rome, that I think'll stick around, if only because it's always going to appeal to some people. Meanwhile here's a little piece on the 60th anniversary of the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. You want an evil axis, you got it, sixty years ago.