Banned Books Week

Books banned in various places in America.

Nature Or Nurture

Researchers hoping to determine the causes of many common diseases like autism and diabetes will follow 100,000 U.S. children from birth through adulthood in the largest ever study of its kind.

Lawsuit Hypocrite

The Center for Justice & Democracy (CJ&D) today called the Bush Administration “the worst kind of hypocrite” for, on the one hand, denouncing injured consumers who file lawsuits, while at the same time filing its own case for civil damages against a manufacturer whose defective product endangered the President.

Black And White

HUD chief foresees a 'whiter' Big Easy.

Topp Of The Morning

The Tagging of Pacific Pelagic (TOPP) research project explores the Pacific, using a carefully selected group of animals from its ecosystems to gather data about their world.

Space Women

Feminist Science Fiction.

Knock Knock

The constantly updated catalogue of Entrances to Hell in and around the UK.

Bonfire Of The Insanities

The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000

And Ye Shall Find

The Lycos 50 - Tracking pop culture, one search at a time. Don't miss these fascinating gems; Lycos 50 Blog, Lycos 50 Archives and the big Lycos 50 Elite of the most popular subjects ever.

Crazy Recordings

The Internet Museum of Flexible and Oddity Records - Once bound by cereal boxes, held in the pages of a magazine, wrapped up in envelopes sent through our postal system or given away casually with some product, these bits of paper and plastic yearned to be set free to fulfill their destiny as...
playable records!

Superwiki

Supermanica - A free and collaborative encyclopedia of Supermanic biography.

Into The Fire #2

Banned Book Week Posters, Bookmarks, and Resource Guide

Like Father, Like Son

Consumer confidence plummets 19% in September. via

TV Night

Laurel Krahn has been posting her tv picks on the web since December 1998

Racism In America #2

Bill Bennett: "You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"

Stereotypes

Create a new face

Racism In America #1

A white Tennessee Republican lawmaker lamenting his exclusion from the state’s Black Legislative Caucus claimed Tuesday the group was less accommodating that even the Ku Klux Klan.

Verse For Verse

Skeptic's Annotated Bible - offers the entire text of the King James version of the Bible

Hang'em High

The Daily Delay - A project of Public Campaign Action Fund, exposes Tom DeLay as the most corrupt politician in Washington.

Unintelligent Design

Dover is believed to be the nation's first school system to mandate students be exposed to the intelligent design concept. Its policy requires school administrators to read a brief statement before classes on evolution that says Charles Darwin's theory is "not a fact" and has inexplicable "gaps." It refers students to an intelligent-design textbook for more information.

Intelligent design holds that Darwin's theory of natural selection cannot fully explain the origin of life or the emergence of highly complex life forms. It implies that life on Earth was the product of an unidentified intelligent force.

Eight families sued, saying that the district policy in effect promotes the Bible's view of creation, violating the constitutional separation of church and state.