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Eric Scheske

Expanding the Mall

> The Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents yesterday announced that a new museum dedicated to black history will be built near the Washington Monument within the next 10 years. Link [http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20060130-115821-8010r.htm]. I couldn't really care less about the

Da Vinci

> So here I am facing another Minnesota winter, looking to expand my mind. Naturally, I turn to 'The Winter & Spring 2006 Community Education Catalog' of the Eden Prairie, Minn., public schools, where I see the very first course offering is: "'Da Vinci Code Historical

JPII Moves Toward Sainthood

I missed this yesterday [http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060130094409990019&cid=]. I'm assuming it was all over the Catholic blogosphere, but I couldn't make my daily cyber-trip yesterday: > The Vatican may have found the "miracle" they need

The Big Game

I found this interesting. The Super Bowl has gotten so big that it has undermined itself. The NFL wants millions from advertisers who want to use the phrase "Super Bowl," so advertisers are just referring to it as the "Big Game." At this time of year,

Fleeing Detroit

An Associated Press story paints an accurate picture of Detroit: the home of my ancestors, my home for a short while, and still the home of many family members: > Officials in the nation's poorest big city see hosting the game as a huge boost. They say it

Piltdown Man

A nice little article about the forgery of evolutionary Piltdown Man, the human stem cell forgery of Hwang Woo-suk, and why we can continue to expect scientific forgery in the coming century [http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=013006A].

Drive-By Porn Reporting

It's not a major societal scourge, but it deserves a little bit of attention: > A woman got a little more than what she ordered at a Bryan fast-food drive-through Saturday night. > While parked and waiting in line at McDonald's, she and her

White Castle

During my young adult days in the Detroit area, I drunkenly ate more White Castle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Castle_(restaurant)] hamburgers than my arteries care to remember. I never realized I was eating from history, until I saw this piece [http://www.salon.com/books/sneaks/1998/

Second Hand Cats

I thought this was a joke, but apparently not: > American researchers claim to have discovered that passive smoking affects felines as much as it does human beings, and have expressed the hope that endangering the family pet might shame some addicts, immune to the effect they are having on

Thrashing Their Way to 40 Virgins

From Australia [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17977910%5E2702,00.html] : > The nation's most senior Islamic woman has attacked Muslim religious leaders who condone "wife-beating" and other forms of domestic violence. > Aziza Abdel-Halim, the only female