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Eric Scheske

Rockabilly

We like Lew Rockwell's eclectic approach, and we like rockabilly. We especially enjoyed this piece today. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/davis6.html]. Excerpt: > The "King of the Cats" at it again: the greatest all around guitar player ever, Brian Setzer, is set for

We're Not Surprised . . .

. . . We've suspected for many years that certain folks like to kill babies. We always felt a little shrill thinking such a thing, but there's evidence for it, including this: > Appearing before the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services subcommittee last week, Dr. William Hurlbut, a

We've Been That Desperate Before

> Thieves posed as police officers in Russia to steal thousands of rolls of toilet paper. > The robbers dressed as policemen to make three loo roll laden trucks stop as they travelled from St Petersburg to Moscow. > When the drivers got out to show their identification they were

'bout Time

> Mainstream Hollywood, after decades of ignoring the pious - or occasionally defying them with the likes of Martin Scorsese's revisionist "Last Temptation of Christ" and Kevin Smith's profane parody "Dogma" - is adjusting to what it perceives to be a rising religiosity in

The Absurdity Continues

NYC train searches: Eighty-six year-old white grandmother? Search her. Twenty-two-year-old Arab man? Maybe not. It's random, both for sensitivity reasons and, we assume, the warped Fourteenth Amendment: > Kelly said that, in general, every 10th rider - or some other set interval - would be

Erotica is Erotica

The more rampant illegitimate heterosexual acts, the more acceptable homosexual acts seem. That might be the reason a "gay vibe" TV show like Desperate Housewives resonates with heteros, but we're just speculating, in a half-baked kind of way. We'll think about it some

Brews You Can Use III

From Leno: > According to a recent Gallup Poll, 39% of people say they prefer to drink wine, 36% say they prefer beer and 21% say they prefer hard liquor. Here's the sad part... This is a poll conducted among airline pilots!

Brews You Can Use II

> A US brewer has recreated a beer that was first brewed in China 9,000 years ago. > Sam Calagione of the Dogfish Head brewery in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, used rice, honey, and grape and hawthorn fruits. > He got the recipe from archaeologists who derived it from the

Brews You Can Use

Curious about the economics of homebrewing? A friend sends along the following e-mail: > I just bottled 2 cases of prime quality home brew last night. It tastes pretty good and should be carbonated in a couple of weeks. Variable cost, not including bottles, $0.31/bottle. That works

More Dahl

The New Yorker has run a lengthy piece about Roald Dahl. Link [http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/articles/050711crat_atlarge]. Excerpt: > Dahl shared with George Orwell an acute sense of why small children often see adults as unsightly or intimidating. “Part of the reason for the ugliness of