Loading ...Conservative academic critic David Horowitz has proposed state laws to prevent discrimination against conservative political ideas in the classroom (such as creationist alternatives to evolution), and of course, there are some narrow-minded professors around, but such a law would be hard to word, and no state has so far taken up the challenge. But this week, a committee of the F State’s House of Representatives approved such a bill, which will likely pass the full House. Not just creationists are protected, of course. A student who believes, say, that the Holocaust didn’t happen, or who doesn’t believe in germ theory or birth control, or who thinks astrology is underregarded by astronomers (or even someone who believes that men should not menstruate in order to live longer), could actually sue a professor who the student felt was disrespectful of the ideas.
Mr. Christopher Seward, 19, of Lake City, Mich., is one of the more hapless persons clearing the news last week. According to police, Seward argued with a neighbor who Seward thought took his booze, and he wanted to get the neighbor in trouble. So Seward stabbed himself in the chest, intending to tell police Seward did it. He died a few minutes later. (As he lay dying, his girlfriend ran shrieking through the house, begging him to tell her “why,” why did you do this?)
Robert Guzman, 42, of Corpus Christi, Tex., is no longer with us. He was apparently trying to steal a heavy statue of the Virgin Mary from Turner’s Gardenland nursery, and the effort gave him a brain hemorrhage. He died at the scene.
Put the breathalyzer away. A 21-yr-old man (unnamed as of Tuesday) in Hemet, Calif., was to be charged with DUI as soon as the hospital is done with him. Clues that he was drunk: Swerving from one side of the road to the other, he hit two parked cars, a tree, a fence, and a bus, and his car’s hood was sticking straight up at 40 mph, with the windshield caved in and two airbags flapping in the wind. [What Do YOU Think? Comment on this Post!] [Testify!]
