View From the Bushes

It's nice to see that any mention of Star Wars can still spark a lively debate. I stand by my assertion that Harrison Ford was the secret sauce in the original Star Wars trilogy. Try this mental exercise: imagine removing Han Solo from the first three movies. When I did this, what was left strongly resembled episodes one and two. Of course, some would argue that you have to perform a similar exercise with episodes one and two and remove Jar-Jar. After handicapping 4,5 and 6 and improving 1 and 2 in this fashion, you end up with two fairly similar movies, stylistically.

I said on Friday that I was going to talk about the Wendy's finger-in-the-chili case once more information became available. There hasn't been a lot of new info since then, but apparently the women who was charged isn't backing down. The authorities haven't found the owner of the finger, which would be the smoking gun, but apparently they have testimonies lined up from people who heard her admit to putting the finger in the chili and experts who will testify that it wasn't cooked along with the chili. Overall it's a lot of circumstantial evidence, but it's enough to convince me.

Finally, I'm including a link to a fascinating article in Scientific American on the differences between male and female brains. I have only had the chance to read part of it, but what I have read so far is fascinating.

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