Eric Scheske

IBM has "officially announced that it will adopt FireFox, recommending all 300,000 employees to download and use it." Link [http://news.softpedia.com/news/IBM-sides-with-FireFox-1917.shtml]. Firefox is a free web browser that provides an alternative to MS's Explorer. So what&

Steven D. Greydanus at decentfilms.com gives approval to the Star Wars series, including the one coming out this Thursday. Link [http://www.decentfilms.com/commentary/starwars.html]. Concluding paragraphs: > Ultimately, what the Star Wars films offer is not a coherent philosophy of life, morality, or spirituality. Rather, they

An inmate on Indiana's death row has a sister who needs a liver transplant. The inmate wants to donate his. And now there's a scramble: to see if health insurance will cover it, to see if the governor will grant a temporary stay to allow the

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Spice Girl Geri Halliwell says she has a huge collection of "toys." But she avoids "buying the toys herself because she feels 'genetically split' after inheriting her late father's sex drive and her mother's Catholic cautiousness." Link [http://www.femalefirst.

A group that calls itself United Confederacy Against WWW (World Wide Web) has started a petition to shut down the Internet. Link [http://www.petitiononline.com/UCAWWW/petition.html]. Entire petition: > We, the members of UCAWWW, petition that the Internet (World Wide Web) creates nothing but harm in society

Another great post from The Dawn Patrol [http://www.dawneden.com/blogger.html]. Excerpt: > [In "Transsexual Youth Haven Provides Support [http://www.newsday.com/news/health/wire/sns-ap-young-transsexuals,0,238585.story?coll=sns-ap-health-headlines] ", the Associated Press reports on a] Chicago center

Interesting piece in the June 6th issue of The American Conservative about mass transit, lamenting the Bush administration's proposed 2006 budget to eliminate funding for Amtrak (no link available). The article makes a strong case for continued funding. The premise is that it's not just Amtrak

"Pride of mind is much worse than pride of will. For pride of will, being visible to the mind, can sometimes be easily cured by forcing it to submit to the yoke of what is good. But when the mind is firmly grounded in the self-relying thought that

"35 years old, been on the pill since age 18, one abortion. Why can't I carry a baby to term, doc?" Link [http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/15/nabort15.xml]. Excerpts: > Having an abortion almost doubles a woman&