Round-up

1. As Lewis Hamilton begins F1 testing, Australian driver Mark Webber had some surprisingly sensible things to say regarding the whole "racism" issue:

"There were a few guys who were absolutely out of order, and that's what the whole thing has been hung on," said Webber, who was at the Circuit de Catalunya testing for Red Bull when the incidents occurred last weekend. "You had a lot of fans who were there with their young kids on a Sunday, so why should you stuff it all for them because of a few guys?" he added. Webber said he believes that some of the worst behaviour regarding the racism controversy was conducted by the media. "The over-reaction of the media ... take it back a bit," he urged. "It's totally controllable and we can get on top of it."

Yup.

2. Another of those reports on the "subtle racism" that infests the world today, this time in the context of the Canadian health-care system. It's funny how this racism is always so subtle that only the people carrying out the research are ever able to notice it.