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It was supposed to be a party with balloons and a birthday cake but the eight-year-old Swedish boy had not reckoned on his country’s obsession with equality and inclusiveness. Two of his classmates were left off the invitation list – and that, deemed his school – was forbidden and a violation of their rights in the strictest “nanny state” in Europe. The case has been sent to the Swedish parliament and has sparked a national debate about individual liberty. Does a child have the right to invite anyone he wants to a party, even if he risks hurting the feelings...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- More than two-thirds of adult Americans believe in hell, but only 1 percent expect to go there. That's according to a new Harris poll, which also found that 90 percent of adult Americans believe in God and 82 percent believe in heaven. And most said that's where they expect to spend eternity. More than one-fourth of those surveyed said they believe in reincarnation, and over half said they believe in ghosts.

THEOLOGICAL THERMODYNAMICS This document reproduces two classics of science parody/humor. The first appeared in Applied Optics (1972, 11 A14). It applies the physics of thermodynamics to conclude that Heaven is hotter than Hell. The second is a response which combines Biblical evidence with thermodynamics to argue that, while heaven is devilishly hot, hell it hotter still. It appeared in the Journal of Irreproducible Results in 1979. While the first paper is well known, and available many places on the www, the follow up isn't as well known. It is included here, for the first time on the net, in the...