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Whitley has always loved the humor of the late comedian Andy Kaufman, who once put a gun to his head and told his audience he would shoot himself if they didn’t laugh at his jokes (you can imagine the forced guffaws that resulted from this). He also once took his entire Carnegie Hall audience out for milk and cookies after his show.

When he was dying from lung cancer in 1984, and being pushed around in a wheelchair, a lot of people assumed it was just another Kaufman joke.

In "The Christmas Spirits," a book Whitley published this year, he tells the story of Dickens’ "Christmas Carol" in modern terms, by having the ghost of Christmas past show up in the protagonist’s life as a homeless man.
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In today’s technology-thirsty society, it’s rare to not see someone with their head down texting on their cell phone or reading the latest status updates on Facebook.

However, too much texting and tilting your head down can become a pain in the neck for some people. An excessive amount of leaning your head forward and down, while looking at a phone or other mobile device could result in what some people call "text neck." The term "text neck" was first used by a chiropractor in Florida and is defined as overuse syndrome involving the head, neck and shoulders, usually resulting from excessive strain on the spine from looking in a downward position at hand held devices such as cell phones, mp3 players, e-readers and computer tablets. read more

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North Korea’s third nuclear test is a good time for China to re-evaluate its longstanding alliance with the Kim dynasty. If China wants to increase its profitable alliance with US, it should press for the reunification of Korea.

In the February 28th edition of the Financial Times, Deng Yuwen writes: "A relationship between states based on ideology is dangerous. If we were to choose our allies on ideology alone, China’s relationship with the west today would not exist. Although both countries are socialist, their differences are much larger than those between China and the west.
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A secret chamber, which was hidden for 400 years and may have been used by early Masons, has just been discovered in the UK. The room is about 6 feet high, with 6 feet by 5 feet of floor space, and the walls are plastered with Masonic symbols (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). The room may have been used as an early form of Masonic lodge before Freemasonry was established in England in 1717.
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