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Eric Scheske

New Orleans' Finest?

> At the Times-Picayune web site, Mike Perlstein and Brian Thevenot wrote that at a Wal-Mart on Tchoupitoulas Street, mass looting broke out after a giveaway of supplies was announced at that location. While some did indeed carry away food and essentials, others "cleared out jewelry racks

Scoffing at Scientism

> Most published scientific research papers are wrong, according to a new analysis. Assuming that the new paper is itself correct, problems with experimental and statistical methods mean that there is less than a 50% chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true. Link [http://www.

Weekly Features Post

This WFP is delayed due to Charter Internet hook-up problems. We'd say more, but we should hold off in Christian charity . . . at least until we see what Charter does today to remedy our problem. Stoic's Porch "Do your duty in all things. You cannot

Wait a Second! . . .

We're beginning to think all this First Amendment stuff is really just a cover for greed. Could that possibly be? > U.S. porn king, Philip D. Harvey, is suing the Bush administration over its anti-prostitution policies saying that the restriction on U.S. AID funding is

The Pope and the Muslims

Interesting piece about B16's approach to Islam: > With a challenge to Muslim leaders to reject and condemn "any connection between your faith and terrorism," Benedict has subtly redefined Vatican relations with Islam, departing from the conciliatory overtures of his predecessor to forge an approach that

Tipping U.S.A.

We like quirky little history lessons of obscure subjects. This is an excellent example: > Restaurant workers in the United States make more than twenty-five billion dollars a year in tips, so it's natural that people think of the custom as quintessentially American. But it wasn'

Pretty Neat

We've played some cards over the years, including electronically. We found this very interesting: > Here's a fascinating account of a "side-band" attack on online Blackjack. At a certain point in the gameplay, the software dealer appeared to need substantially more calculations if

Are They Beating Us in Perversion, Too?

These guys are more Americanized than we thought! > A Chinese researcher has warned of a new threat to public health and morality -- naked Internet chatting. Up to 20,000 Chinese Internet users log on to chatrooms each night in which users in various states of undress talk to each

Could be Funny . . .

. . . but will probably be an embarrassment. We enjoy Liddy, but don't respect Hannity. We've never listened to North: > A new comic series bearing the unwieldy title ''Liberality for All" is coming out in October from ACC Studios, a recently formed one-man

Why the Shock?

They're just potatoes, right? > Neighbors struggled Sunday to reconcile the gruesome discovery with their memories of the nice man who once lived on Evans Street. > Pathologists, meanwhile, examined fetal remains found inside a detached garage behind the modest, two-bedroom house that had been Robert B.