  Congratulations to SPH for yet another completely appalling instalment of the Sunday Times, replete with a very informative article like this one: urlLink Singaporeans are class-concious. DUHHHHHHH. Now quit wasting my time, losers, and pull out a decent publication already. On to a more interesting topic: pornography. Ron Jeremy, the world's #1 porn star. He has a Master's from Queen's College (the Oxford one? ), and a couple of BAs. Some people have all the luck. Ron Jeremy is a Jew and half of his family have PhDs. Hugh Hefner, the man every male wants to be (sans the wrinkles, etc). Hefner has - ahem - a hefty IQ of 152 and, in a way more profound than Ron Jeremy can manage, put such a spin to porn that makes it look legitimate again. (It *is* legitimate, in my opinion, in general, because all want to make $$$, but sometimes you've got to pander to your more conservative side.
) Read this Hugh Hefner urlLink interview though. Quite amazing that some of the smartest people I've read about are turning the very large cogs in no small way of the porn biz. We have our own Annabel Chong, and while she is a woman of contradiction - if you read enough about her, she is undeniably smart and articulate. There are also a couple of porn stars who've graduated from uni with first class honours, represented their countries in science and maths olympiads, and whatever.
I didn't get to all of this by gatecrashing right through porn, obviously - the behind the scenes stuff is always much tamer. Mark my words: one day somebody will write a spread about the smartest people in the world being porn stars, and it's not as if it isn't already - um - fucking obvious, to squeeze in the obligatory other use for the F-word as an intensifier. 
