Eric Scheske

We received this from a reader. We haven't verified his stat, but we know the sender to be a reliable fellow: > If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraqi theater during the last 22 months, that gives a firearm

Another great post from Dawn Eden this morning, this time about plans to distribute 100,000 free condoms around NYC, mostly (it would appear) for the benefit of the homosexual community. Link to The Dawn Patrol [http://www.dawneden.com/blogger.html]. Excerpt: > And people say the Roman Catholic

If you're interested in religious interpretation of modern film, Christianity Today has a lengthy review of three books that tackle the subject. Link [http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2005/003/9.43.html]. Excerpt: > In Catching Light: Looking for God in the Movies, Anker organizes his detailed

> An advocacy group for Hispanics is demanding an apology from the bride-to-be who skipped town days before her lavish wedding and falsely claimed she had been abducted by a Hispanic man. Link [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/03/national/

A restaurant is supposedly having success with a toilet-themed restaurant. The dishes look like little toilets, the chairs are toilets. Only in America? Nope, Taiwan. Link. [http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2005/05/toilet_bowl_res.php?rss]

"In Hong Kong, one of the world's most densely populated cities, the birth rate fell to 0.94 babies per woman of child-bearing age in 2003, prompting the city's deputy leader to call couples to have three children each 'to help alleviate the

Issue XXIII Michigan in May. It's possibly the prettiest month of the year. Everything is brilliant green, except for the newly-sprouting flowers and the large number of small trees that are blossoming in shades of red, pink, and white. The weather is warm, but not brutally hot,

> Just in time for Mother's Day, an informal study conducted by Web site Salary.com shows that stay-at-home moms would earn an average of $131,471 annually, including overtime, if they received a paycheck. Link [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=

Full disclosure time: When it comes to things scientific, we struggle. We're interested, but not competent. Nonetheless, we found this article at Lew Rockewell highly interesting. The gist seems to be: telomerase inhibitors could take care of the Big C, but the government is blocking its development. We

This stuff always interests us: There's a new theory about Jack the Ripper. This one says he was a sailor and struck in countries besides England. Link [http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1475063,00.html]. Here's an excerpt of biographical sketches of