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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

eBay: Cottage Industry Redux

We like it: > eBay is fast becoming one of the largest employers in America. Of course, it hardly employs anyone, but it enables a lot of people to employ themselves and run their own businesses: 724,000 people are using it as their full- or part-time employment, up

Promiscuity Problems, Episode 3,209,443

If ten-year-olds are getting pregnant, the problem ain't a lack of condoms: > Two recent publications circulating at the United Nations demonstrate a growing focus on young people as a way of advancing the abortion agenda. The reports, one by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Purifying Katie?

A dermatologist says it looks like an outbreak of cold sores, but we're fascinated by the mere fact that there is a Scientology purification procedure. Can they purify a person after multiple partners? Maybe that's why Scientology does so well with the Hollywood set. > Celebrity

News Flash: Wal-Mart Turns Down Expansion Opportunity!

> Officials at Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., ordered their Roanoke store to put an end to Singles Shopping, the only program of its kind at Wal-Mart's U.S. stores. > Taking a cue from Wal-Marts in Germany, the month-old program encouraged customers on

Hugs for Atheists

The one admirable thing about atheists is, they were always individualists, the rugged type with the tough and callous attitude of someone who wouldn't succumb to any sort of weakness, who refused to give a damn what others thought or did. That's the caricature we mentally

Is Your Husband a Lech?

Russell Moore at Mere Comments weighs in on a popular new American book. Link [http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2005/07/romance_adulter.html]. Excerpt: > It's ten o'clock, do you know where your husband is? Apparently many Americans are asking this question, judging by the

Pod Porn

The stuff is like weeds. It just grows and proliferates everywhere. Now, iPods: > Podcasting, that baby medium, is suddenly home to a lot of adult content. Introduced to a mainstream audience just last month, the technology–radiolike programming for your iPod–that was once the chaste province of "

Dracula's Sex Drive

Funny, sad, and just downright weird. We're sure the secularists who can't distinguish religion from superstition will have great time with this one. Link [http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3355560a4560,00.html]. > An Italian couple stole 50,000 euros ($NZ88,000) from

Doltish

Two linquistic innovators have invented a type of Pig-English. It's called "Globish," and it's meant to provide a simplified form of English as the world's lingua franca. Link [http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/universal-english-has-a-name--globish/

Putt-Putt

New York Times Magazine ran a lengthy piece this morning about miniature golf: its history, its current financial problems, its Dangerfieldesque status. More than you'd ever want to know, we're sure. But we did find this interesting: This year, the Putt-Putt U.S. Open winner