At Spadina and Queen, people are qeueing up to get onto the Spadina street car.

"Please, do not use the back doors. Please enter the car through the front doors," intoned the operator.

Then, three seconds later, he politely said: "Thank you for ignoring me."

Titters sweep the car.

"If the back door gets broken and the car has to go out of service, that wouldn't be funny," he said quietly upon my entry (through the front; I play by the rules). "That wouldn't be funny at all."

From the BBC:

A  Malaysian newspaper is facing calls to shut down after it published an image of Jesus holding a cigarette and what appeared to be a can of beer.

Malaysia's Muslim-led government closed two publications last year for carrying controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

Now some members of Malaysia's minority religions say they want the same treatment over this latest incident.

Religion is a famously sensitive subject in Malaysia.

So when Tamil-language newspaper, Makkal Osai, published a picture on its front page apparently showing Jesus smoking and drinking it was bound to cause offence.

Christian groups said that although the Jesus of the Bible was a compassionate figure - who turned water into wine, shared a flagon with his disciples at the Last Supper and mixed with tax collectors and prostitutes - action should still be taken.

Pardon me for smirking when the paper's explanation was that the graphic editor grabbed the image off the Internet. :) 

Earlier this week, there was a story about how Malaysia doesn't want much sexy-sexy in its pop concerts.

Update

The paper has been ordered to shut down for a month. Yikes.

From The Globe and Mail:

President Nicolas Sarkozy is one of the rare democratic leaders who can say the media helps him look better in print than he does in real life.

Paris Match, the celebrity magazine owned by one of the French President's best friends, did him the favour this week of airbrushing away Mr. Sarkozy's rather unsightly love handles in a photograph of him in swim trunks.