Eric Scheske

Star Wars or Star Trek? Nerds debate. The rest of us may now slit our wrists, resting comfortably in the fact that the world is, as Schopenhauer assured us, pointless. > This month will mark the passing of not only the final Star Wars movie, but also the latest Star

It's all fun and games until someone loses a mouth: > A new chilli sauce goes on sale today that is so hot it could KILL. > Ultra-concentrated “16 Million Reserve” is the hottest science can make. > The sauce is 30 times hotter than the spiciest

> A decision to take Advanced Placement biology instead of gym will cost a Bow High School senior her diploma, but it won't keep her from going to college in the fall. > Though Isabel Gottlieb is a good student, a trumpet player in the school band and

Don't know what we did without this: And watering your lawn with the Dark Side costs only $19.00! Link [http://shop.starwars.com/catalog/product.xml?product_id=1890;category_id=421;pcid1=;pcid2=] .

City Journal has a great piece about educating and raising inner city children. The article starts with Bill Cosby's rants against black parents for failing their children. It then explores the trillions of dollars that have been wasted in efforts to provide better education for inner city children

And to think we've been frowning on higher education: > The 2005 SpringFest, a controversial [University of North Dakota] student bash held every year in University Park, was very similar to last year's celebration, as Grand Forks Police issued just as many citations. > But homeowners

We had occasion to revisit the Southern Essays of Richard Weaver recently. We found many gems, including these from his essay, "Lee the Philosopher": > It is fatuous to say, as is being said now, that all men want peace. Men want peace part of the time, and

> A secret organisation headed by a retired family doctor is illegally providing terminally ill British people with thousands of pounds to enable them to travel to a Swiss suicide clinic. Link to The Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/08/neuth08.xml&

For those who missed it, the Canadian battle against free speech and freedom of religious belief finally hit the big time: a bishop has been sued in Canada's notorious human rights commission. Why? He wrote in a pastoral letter, "Since homosexuality, adultery, prostitution, and pornography undermine the

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of Detroit wants Detroit voters to approve a two-percent fast-food tax. Critics of the plan say the tax would unfairly burden the poor and hamper economic development in the city. Link [http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=3315172]. Comment I: Maybe the Mayor