Intelligent design: an unintelligent idea

By Taylor Kessinger

Ben Stein, best known as the economics teacher in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," the host of his own game show and the mascot for Clear Eyes, has somehow managed to procure an even more humorous role - as the poster boy for intelligent design, the laughingstock of the scientific community.

The long and short of it

By Jeremiah Simmons

Suffice it to say, all men were not created equal. When it comes to measuring up - in inches, that is - some of us end up with the short end of the stick. Does size really matter? History paints a different picture from the present. In today's society, we've created indices of potential penis size by observing the largeness of a man's hands, the size of his feet or the length of his earlobes.

Editorial: Pass/Fail

NASA's secret survey Even for seasoned passengers, air travel can be an unnerving experience. That's why it's helpful to run your mind through a little grim calculus as you hurl through the sky in a giant aluminum death-tube: statistically speaking, you're far more likely to die on the road than in a plane accident.

Mail Bag

Cop letter 'misguided outrage' Yesterday's letter titled " 'Kill Cops' photo irresponsible" by Ashley Harris and Alexandra Pesqueira is a perfect example of misguided outrage. Instead of attacking the protesters, they lay the blame on the newspaper that published a photo of them.