We’ve been hearing that black rice is the new superfood, packing a bigger antioxidant punch than blueberries. But all of us in the office are still wondering: Is this the Korean black rice, the purple rice with beans that complements our kimchi jjigae so wonderfully? They say that black rice turns a purple-ish color when cooked.

This is what the superfood black rice looks like uncooked.

This is what cooked Korean black rice looks like.

It’s the beans that make Korean rice turn purple, right? Does anyone know?

James Lee did NOT think these kids are cute.

Maybe I’m a little twisted but I’m so intrigued by the reasoning crazy of James Lee, the 43-year-old man who entered Discovery Communications headquarters yesterday with a gun and explosives. He was mentally ill, to be sure, but his beliefs contained some logic.

He believed that:

- Human overpopulation is responsible for all the pollution and problems in the world.

- We are being brainwashed by the media.

- Shows about mondo-families such as TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting and Jon & Kate Plus 8 (Now simply Kate Plus Eight), Table for 12,and Quints By Surprise were making people want to have babies.

- Instead of these type of programs, there should be shows encouraging human sterilization and infertility. He even tried to sponsor a contest to develop this type of television programming.

Lee felt that no one seemed to be listening so he took his rage to an unthinkable level. He finally got the attention he wanted.

Source: Time

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

The Washington Times (not to be confused with the more acclaimed Washington Post) was just sold by Preston Moon to Douglas Joo for the grand sum of one dollar.

The Washington Times was founded in 1982 by the Unification Church founder, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, aka the head of the Moonies, and was primarily funded by the Unification Church. The Unification Church stopped funding the paper a few years ago, a huge blow to a paper that has never made a profit.

The recent sale to Joo, the head of News World Media Development, a Delaware-based company, and an ally of Reverend Moon, means that the Washington Times will likely be under the Unification Church’s umbrella again.

via U.S. News

Update: 5:50pm EST

Law enforcement officials are reporting that Lee is dead. At least one explosive device went off, but no one besides Lee is believed to be injured. Chief Manger said that when Lee was shot, one of the metallic canisters strapped to his chest and back popped, and “the device may have gone off.”  (MSNBC, ABC)

Update: 5:11pm EST

According to Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger, police shot Lee at approximately 4:50pm. There are no reports on the gunman’s status, but the three hostages he was holding are reportedly out of the building and safe.

Update: 3:46pm EST

Montgomery County, Maryland, Fire Rescue Chief Richard Bowers says that negotiations have been going on for an hour. Police also told CNN that Lee entered the building ” wearing what appeared to be metallic canister devices on his front and back.”

Police have not confirmed whether anyone has been shot.

Photo from Myspace

A lone gunman who has been identified as James Jay/Jae Lee is currently holding at least one person hostage in the lobby of the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Springs, Maryland. The building has been evacuated, but police say there is at least one person being held hostage.

Lee has been protesting Discovery for some time on his website, www.savetheplanetprotest.com; he was apparently angry that the Discovery Channel did not cover overpopulation (the subject of his obsession) enough.

“I want Discovery Communications to broadcast on their channels to the world their new program lineup and I want proof they are doing so. I want the new shows started by asking the public for inventive solution ideas to save the planet and the remaining wildlife on it,” the alleged manifesto reads, adding:”Nothing is more important than saving … the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.”

He’s also ironically against war and immigration.

His manifesto reads “WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!” and also says “Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it.”

Thankfully, all the children in the Discovery Channel Day Care Center as well as the majority of the employees have been evacuated.

via global regina, CNN, MSNBC