I'm sure the Cleveland DJs who decided to throw an old-fashioned book burning of Fifty Shades of Grey thought they were pretty darn cool. Especially when someone threw an actual Nook onto the flames -- that had to throw up some spectacular sparks! Too bad their grand plan kind of backfired, huh?

By throwing E.L. James' naughty novels into a burning pit outside a bar, Chad Zumock and Alan Cox just made the so-called mommy porn a whole lot hotter -- at least among the literary set.

So I'm pretty sure the human evolutionary process has stalled (or maybe regressed): The Indian government just shelled out $1.28 million to buy over 1,000 letters and documents that might reveal Gandhi was ... wait for it ... gay. That's right, we apparently are living in a time when a major governing body deemed the million-dollar cover-up of a long-dead icon's possible homosexuality a necessary and justifiable expense.

Of course, the Indian government won't come out (ha!) and say that's why they bought the archive of correspondence between Gandhi and architect Hermann Kallenbach. According to a senior official at the Ministry of Culture in New Delhi, "These (papers) are of huge importance to India to carry out research on the Gandhian view on various things, that is why we decided to purchase them."

Okay, fair enough. Until ...

Well, this was probably pretty awkward: a woman trying to take a 6 AM Southwest flight from Las Vegas to New York on June 5 was none the wiser that her dress was too low cut and her breasts were just a smidge too bodacious. Air travel doesn’t usually come saddled with a set of style guidelines but in her case, the unsightliness of her 36DD cups running over was enough for an attendant to ask her to cover up or run the risk of not boarding the plane.

When you prep for a trip, you check to make sure you have your luggage, your boarding pass, your purse. Maybe even your kids, if you’re traveling with them. But you’re probably not checking to see if your boobs are tucked into a regulation covering appropriate for flying the friendly skies. I guess now we'll have to add that to the pre-flight checklist.

This week I’ve been attending the Personal Democracy Forum, a conference geared toward how technology and the Internet are changing democracy in America. Since I’m a person that uses advances in technology (social media in particular) to speak out for political causes, this conference has been right up my alley. 

One very interesting topic that has come up with several speakers is the question of whether or not Internet access is a right or not. Some of the speakers made very cogent points that populations without access to information might as well live in police states. If you can’t forage information for yourself, where do you get your information?

Salty sailors and cursing cads would do well to avoid Middleborough, Massachusetts from here on out. It's that or pack their wallets with $20 bills. That's now the price people who swear in public in the small town near Boston will have to pay. Puts a whole new twist on the cuss jar, doesn't it?

The town ban on public profanity has actually been in existence since the late '60s, but it just became a lightning rod for free speech debate thanks to an addition of an actual fine for dropping an F-bomb on the street. But all the Mass-holes ready to go to blows over their right to blaspheme are forgetting something.

Ray Bradbury, the iconic science fiction writer, sadly passed away earlier this week at 91, but he leaves brilliant books, essays, and plays behind and will always live on through his words. You may not have read any of his stuff, but one of his most famous works, Fahrenheit 451, depicts a dystopian society that burns its books, and it's fantastic.

Bradbury has said the book is less about censorship and more about how TV and mass media affect reading literature -- definitely something a lot of us in 2012 can relate to, I'm sure. The novel is filled with amazing passages and memorable quotes, so we've listed 12 for you to get a feel of Bradbury's style and perhaps inspire you to pick up (or download) a copy for yourself! So turn off the TV and let's get started.

Leave Gwyneth Paltrow alone, y’all. She’s been set up. The actress -- who is a rock star by association thanks to her hubs, Coldplay front man Chris Martin, and bestie and uber diva Beyonce -- got caught up in the coincidentiality (yep, I made that word up) of going to see Jay-Z and Kanye West perform in France’s capital city. And, well, because they have a song called “Niggas in Paris” and they were live in Paris, she couldn’t resist broadcasting the irony. So she innocently tweeted “Ni**as in paris for real” to just under a million followers and used it as a caption for a grainy picture taken of her dancing on stage with Jay and his fellow artist The Dream. 

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a high school sophomore and her Mother against the school superintendent charging that she violated the teen’s freedom of speech right by allowing her “I HEART Boobies” bracelet to be confiscated by the assistant principal.

The student, whose mother is a breast cancer survivor, had worn the bracelet for months in support of breast cancer research and in honor of her mother before having it confiscated.