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Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use II

Some relatively-obscure beer quotes, with our brief commentary: We like that, too: > It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've

Brews You Can Use

What's more popular, beer or wine? > The Gallup survey found that 63% of Americans drink alcohol, and that 39% of them say they drink wine more often than any other alcoholic beverage. Beer drinkers account for 36% with spirits drinkers making up 21%. Last year the numbers

Even We Don't Like Beer That Much

> A woman who admitted to setting a fire in her home because she was upset there was no beer pleaded guilty to arson, and several other charges Tuesday. > Police say Ruby Jewell was upset that her husband wouldn't buy her more beer last January, so she

PSA

Blogging will be a little light for the next couple of days. No, Eric Scheske isn't off on another important mission (unless killing little brown men, six at a time, counts). But he will be on the road and will have only occasional access to the Internet. We

Odd Consumer News

The New York Times has run an article about the Futuro House, a little pre-fab from the 1970s. Sixty or so still exist, but it appears there's a growing interest in them (which the NYT article will no doubt feed). Who knows, perhaps they'll go

Hollywood Squares

Funny and nostalgic stuff from The Sudden Curve [http://tonova.typepad.com/thesuddencurve/2005/07/hollywood_squar.html]: > Here are some quotes from I found, when game show's responses were spontaneous and not scripted like they are now. > Peter Marshall: Paul, can you get an elephant

Can No One See the Distinction?

> Two gay Iranian teenagers -- one 18, the other believed to be 16 or 17, were executed this week for the "crime" of homosexuality . . . > Consensual gay sex in any form is punishable by death in the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to the website Age of Consent,

But If They Were Gay Drug Dealers . . .

. . . they would have been protected and the righteous crowd dispersed with tear gas: > Police in Inuvik had to escort eight men out of the town last weekend after a mob threatened to remove the group from the community by force. > Police say they defused a potentially violent situation

Eric Scheske Can Barely Handle One

Interesting piece about the impact of polygamy on Islam's terrorism. Link [http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18649/article_detail.asp]. Excerpt: > What differentiates Islam from the world's other great religions–Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism–is that it sanctions and practices polygamy. How did

Monsters, Inc.

If you haven't read about the sentencing of 62 raging pedophiles in Frances, you can get details here. Link [http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1744877,00.html]. Warning: It's nasty and disturbing. We won't cut-and-paste anything