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Eric Scheske

Weekly Features Post

Introductory Words: We apologize up front for an abbreviated Weekly Features Post. If you've been logging on regularly, you know that we've been vacationing in Alpena, Michigan, at Eric Scheske's family cottage on Lake Huron. Wi-Fi has allowed us to blog a little,

Elvis

We've admitted previously: We like Elvis. No, we don't own a velvet Elvis, but we do have some Elvis posters. We bought them mostly for the shock and humor value, but we genuinely enjoy Elvis' music and persona, no matter how shallow and absurd. Perhaps

To Heck with the Horseless Carriage . . .

. . . we need a cow-less one: > California's San Joaquin Valley for some time has had the dirtiest air in the country. Monday, officials said gases from ruminating dairy cows, not exhaust from cars, are the region's biggest single source of a chief smog-forming pollutant.

Creative Crimes Call for Creative Sentences?

> Police departments in Johnson County aren't sure how they'll carry out an unusual sentence a judge imposed on a teenager convicted of intentionally vomiting on his teacher. > Johnson County Magistrate Judge Michael Farley on Tuesday sentenced the 17-year-old boy to spend the

Shallowness Breeds Shallowness?

This survey links the pursuit of money with the pursuit of beauty. Say it ain't so! > More than half of women believe that having a better body and looks would enable them to climb the career ladder at work, putting paid to the "brains over beauty&

New Online Encyclopedia

James Randi has put his Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural online. Interesting stuff. Link [http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/].

State of the Blogosphere

David Sifry publishes a quarterly report about the state of blogging. Here are his results for the most-recent quarter (published 8/1/2005): > Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links in July 2005 The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.

Wouldn't You Expect More from a Country . . .

. . . that's so sexually progressive? > Car manufacturers BMW, DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen; the country's fourth-largest financial institution, Commerzbank; Europe's largest chip-producer, Infineon - five of Germany's leading firms, all members of its Dax-30 blue-chip index, have become embroiled in corruption

Britain is Serious

The U.S. isn't serious yet, but if we're attacked a few more times, maybe security guards at airports will be directed to be effective, not sensitive: > British Transport Police have been targeting specific ethnic groups for "intelligence-led" stop-and-searches as

Plugging a Giant

We've mentioned that we're blogging from the shores of Lake Huron. That's only partly true. Our cottage sits on the big lake, but we don't have an Internet connection there. We go to the local McDonald's in Alpena, Michigan to