An effort to catalog all of Earth's known life on one Web site was unveiled yesterday. The project, called the Encyclopedia of Life, will take 10 years to complete. What's interesting isn't that a bunch of scientists are getting together to make some ultra-Wiki for animal life so much as how they're going to make it.

"Partial birth abortion" is not a medical term. This past April, however, the term did not stop the U.S. Supreme Court from upholding a federal ban on a wide range of medical procedures that fall under the vague text used in the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003.

What can I say about the Iraq war that hasn't already been spouted off by narcissistic pundits and sell-out journalists? Oh yeah, "I told you so." I told you so, world. Didn't you hear me, America? Where were you when I was shouting at you credit-card touting, tax-paying citizens? What was so important that you didn't listen to me? Taco Bell? Barnes & Noble? Reality television? Wait…it wasn't The Hills, was it? So help me, suburbanites, if it was that pile of cinematic waste.

As the semester is coming to a merciful halt, I have to give credit where credit is due. I'm a computer science and religion double major, not a journalist like some people thought, and I just happen to have a passion for the subject. When I first agreed to write the column, I figured that people would want me dead by week four.

It's been hot this week. Too hot, some say. And thanks to some greedy politicians, it's only going to get worse. The U.N. released a strategy report to avoid the effects of global warming last Friday, which was largely ignored by two of the world's biggest polluters: the U.

Candy drugs. Drugs that taste like candy. Anyone else see a problem? Recently, producers of methamphetamines released a brand new version of their already popular product. They are going after a decidedly younger audience with new and improved flavors such as peanut butter, strawberry and chocolate.

When the Virginia Tech shooting occurred a little more than two weeks ago it was a media frenzy. Reporters and editors across the county scrambled to get the scoop on this tragic story. Yet as expected, the story lost its buzz and has been out shadowed by America Idol results.

A Vegan couple was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison after their malnourished 6-week-old baby boy died at 3 and a half pounds. Their excuse: Jane Sanders, 27, and Lamont Thomas, 31, "did the best they could while adhering to the lifestyle of vegans," their defense lawyers said, according to an Associated Press article.

There are rights that we, as members of civilization, have a duty to uphold. We do our best to make sure that when you're hungry, you can get something to eat, even if it's brussel sprouts. When you are young and stupid, we try to make you less so by sending you to school, even if it doesn't make a dent.