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Eric Scheske
The Week in Review
Carlson's Ten Points
The Bogus Teetotalling Movement is About to Get Turbo-Charged
Big Pharma is Going Psychedelic
The Week in Review
A Unicorn on the Left, the Continuing Silo Tribes, Hudge and Gudge's Increasingly Fierce Copulation
Marijuana is Number One
America's newest teetotalling movement is like a guy who claims he practices abstinence because he only masturbates. (Blog post)
The Week
On Not Crapping Oneself, Gay Cruises, and the Contracepting of the West
Substack Has Installed AI-Detection
For articles published after 11:30 AM on July 21, 2026, readers can click a button and scan it for AI-generated text.
Why Political People Tend to be Intensely Unpleasant
Here's one reason. The other reasons are Legion.
The Left Hemisphere Makes You Afraid
Essay
California Sober
California sober is neither. It's not just for Californians and the practitioners aren't sober.
The weed legalization wave is proving to be such a problem, even the diehard libertarian Tyler Cowen is saying it was a mistake, noting that pot is simply too potent and causing