This poetry contest should celebrate or mourn or somehow document diseases not of a sexual nature (non-sexually transmitted). Many poems have been written about AIDS and chlamydia, as well as herpes and Hepatitus C as aspects of the Sexual Revolution,...

This novel (To Kill a Mockingbird) scapegoats Bob Ewell as the essence of evil while making a claim that most people are quite good. This is reaffirmed at the end of the novel when Atticus Finch tells his two brats as much. Boo Radley, who had...

I read a short biography of the scientist Archimedes, by Jeanne Bendick yesterday. It doesn't say the age for which it was intended, but I originally bought it for my 8-year old, and I think he might be able to read it. It's about 125 pages long. I'm...

I've now read the last sentence of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. The book is 1208 pages in length (800 pages less than the House version of the new Health Insurance bill which Congress has 72 hours to read). It's taken me about three weeks...

One of the ground rules of the Christian framework has to do with neighborliness. State Farm sings, "Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm is there!" And I suppose that in their own way, Obama-ites want GOVERNMENT to be there like a good neighbor. But...