Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.

Because of all the cosmetic services like skin whitening and hair bleaching, there is a lot that people can do to change their appearance without having actual surgery. It's quite common in Thailand and Korea and Japan.

Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives.

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all.

There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.