The US Commission of Fine Arts has approved the revised design for the 28-foot Martin Luther King Jr national memorial statue. Opponents of the original design said it felt "confrontational" and similar to statues toppled in formerly dictatorial nations.

The new design gives King a less furrowed brown and a mouth tilted ever so slightly into a smile. It's exactly how the civil rights hero wouldn't look upon a nation that still has people asking if the White House can be called that with a black president in it.

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GOD COMPLEXES Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis is profiled in the new issue of GQ. This is our favorite excerpt: "His enemies list has grown as he sits in jail, and it was recently expanded to include Access Hollywood reporter Maria Menounos, who did an interview Francis didn’t like. 'She called me the 'ever defiant Joe Francis,' ' he howls. 'Fuck yeah, I’m defiant! It’s like that defiant Rosa Parks won’t give up her seat. Fuck you, Maria. The ever defiant Nelson Mandela just can’t stand apartheid. The ever defiant Martin Luther King. The ever defiant Jesus Christ. You fucking stupid whore. If I saw Maria Menounos, I’d punch her in the face.'"

We were positively leery when MSNBC reported wealthy Western women were traveling to Africa to have unprotected sex with Kenyan studs. Not that it's unbelievable at face value, but come on: the AIDS rate is almost 7 percent in that country.

Ellen DeGeneres' audience and their feverish cat calls in this clip buried our skepticism. Because if a cult of Midwestern soccer moms can look past this Crip felon's myriad legal indiscretions and his casual references to their gender as "hos," they can probably also look past the fact that that young Kenyan they're wining and dining might give them a deadly disease back at the hotel room.

Dr King, your dream is not deferred!