now they'll be saying, "oh those wacky chinese" instead

Oh hey, Disney decided to drop shark fin soup from their menu. Confession: I *LOVE* shark fin soup. It is delicious - mild, but rich, nice texture; we hardly ever have it anymore, mostly because we've run out of relatives who are getting married, and it's pretty expensive. It is infinitely preferable to bird's nest soup. This is the one thing I don't get about how the Chinese use their sharks, though - why do they throw the rest of the body in the water? Is the meat bad or something? I mean, we use up every part of the other animals, why not the shark?

Anyway.

Chinese Eatery Sold Donkey in Tiger Urine

Suicide theme park proposed for Hong Kong island

Pickled fetus head fuels art furor: Berne's Museum of Fine Arts removed the piece from a Chinese art exhibition earlier this month after a complaint that it was disrespectful to the dead, and following concerns its grisly appearance might traumatize visiting schoolchildren.

The piece, named "Ruan," stole headlines in Swiss newspapers when artist Xiao Yu confirmed that the fetus head was real.

Now the museum's management will decide next week whether to reinstate the work, which sits pickled in a jar of formaldehyde.

Chinese company makes soy sauce from human hair.

A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered.

What is the next "Chinese people are crazy/fucked up/weird" story?

credentials my ass

In the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter was ordered to stop by a federal official because he wasn't registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Then, the Coast Guard official informed the group that he could not credential them or guarantee tort coverage and that they should return to Baton Rouge. "That shocked me, that those would be his concerns in a time of emergency," Gerhart said.

They most certainly could have credentialed him. BoardCertifiedDocs: "In support of the emergency response efforts in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, Elsevier is working with the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) to provide free, urgent credentials verifications. As authorities respond to the emergency in the Gulf Area, there may be a need to access board certification information for disaster credentialing purposes.

For assistance with verifications, please email our team directly at abms.feedback@elsevier.com. You can also contact our editorial team at (866) 352-5001."

It takes less than a minute to check a physician's credentials, once you are given a username and password. FEMA is worse than useless.