Two Good Lines
Two good lines Eric heard at the drinking club tonight:
1. "My marriage is on the rocks. Which is better than taking it straight, I
guess."
2. In reference to the gas prices: "Keep 'em coming. I can't afford to drive
home tonight."
Eric Scheske
Least Favorite People
Right Wing News asked over 200 right-of-center bloggers to send their list of
least favorite right-wing people. Forty-seven bloggers responded. Here are the
results (number of votes in parentheses, on the right):
> 18) Tom Tancredo (4)
18) Ralph Reed (4)
18) Newt Gingrich (4)
18)
That's Nuts! . . .
. . . but understandable:
> A man annoyed by a noisy car alarm fired at least three bullets into a Toyota
Camry, silencing the alarm and bringing out police who hauled him away in
handcuffs, authorities said.
Link
[http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ALARM_RAGE?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=STRANGE&
Everyone's Copying Eric Scheske!
First Arianna Huffington, now Donald Trump has his own blog. Link
[http://www.techweb.com/wire/ebiz/168600536].
> Add online blogger to the list of media ventures on the resume of real-estate
mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump.
> Trump's eponymous blog, which is subtitled
Fun in the Hood
This is one of the funniest things we've seen in the past couple of weeks: An
application for a board game about fighting crack cocaine. Hours of fun for the
entire family!
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/patent/crackgame1.html
We're not intellectual law attorneys, but we&
Strange Days Indeed . . .
. . . Most peculiar, mama:
> In an unusual show of “openness” to the Catholic Church, a Masonic lodge in
Italy has announced the appointment of a Catholic priest as chaplain. The news
was announced during an address to members of the lodge by Grand Master Fabio
Venzi of the Grand Lodge
I Have Entitlements! I Have Rights! Let Me Kill You!
Government hand-outs weaken the economy and often destroy its recipients. But
now there's yet another reason to hate them:
> Hateful Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed has lived well off the dole in
England. The moocher cleric is due for a government angioplasty – no doubt
because he
What's the Problem? . . .
. . . Isn't the point to have fun at all costs and to be offensive, if at all
possible? Those censors in Helland just don't get it:
> The Dutch university student who produced a pro-Holocaust video apologized
Wednesday, calling the creation a joke.
> Expatica reports
Edgy Recruits
The Catholic Church is turning to Hollywood-marketing to recruit priests, and it
just may be working. Link
[http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050811-121555-3335r.htm]. Excerpts:
> "If we can get high-school youth to hang a picture of a priest in their room,
that's
The Bizarro St. Josephs?
> Research suggests that, as cases of teenage pregnancies, sexual infidelity and
multiple partners increase, 1 in 25 fathers could unknowingly be raising another
man's child.
> With improvements in genetic testing, thousands of fathers every year are
discovering that “their” child is someone else's. A