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Eric Scheske

Lactating Lawsuit

Mrs. Scheske breast-feeds the Scheske babies. The cost savings have bought Eric hundreds of cases of beer. But there's something unsavory about the militant mammary movement: > A Great Lakes Naval Base mother is crying foul after an employee at Six Flags Hurricane Harbor allegedly asked her

The Next Civil Right

An absolutely-disgusting article. Link [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002382718_horse15m.html]. The only excerpt we'll present: > The farm was talked about in Internet chat rooms as a destination for people looking to have sex with livestock, he said.

Warped Sports Culture, Episode 1,542,901

> A T-ball coach seeking to keep a player with a mental disability off the field allegedly asked another player to hurt the boy, state police said Friday. . . > During pre-game warmups, Mark Reed Downs Jr. offered one of his players $25 to hit the 8-year-old

Rich Guys Have Everything

> As their incomes rise, both men and women are more likely to have a higher sex drive, according to a study of almost 30,000 people from 170 countries. Only among men, however, does this translate into more frequent sex: male high earners have sex significantly more often than

How Much is Enough?

> When the scandals at companies such as Enron and WorldCom were first uncovered, corporate governance advocates, investors and some politicians pointed to runaway executive compensation as a key underlying problem. > Yet more than three years later, experts say little has improved. These days, heads of public companies can

The Paternalism Marches On, Too

Couldn't we just make everyone sign a blanket Assumption of Risk form when they turn 18 and get rid of all this crud? > The Center for Science in the Public Interest, supported by other health advocates such as Children's Hospital Boston, petitioned the Food and

The Beat Goes On

> Dutch paediatricians have voted unanimously to adopt as national guidelines the so called Groningen protocol that covers the mercy killing of newborn babies who are incurably sick and are suffering severely. The Dutch Paediatric Society accepted that "in exceptional circumstances and under strict conditions... deliberate ending of life&

Something for Saturday Morning

Jeffrey Tucker lauds the morning drink. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker55.html]. Excerpt: > It turns out that in the sweep of history, when water was not always safe and orange juice rarely accessible, this practice of morning drinking was the norm for all classes in society, and

PSA

We're not posting a Weekend Eudemon this morning. Eric is preparing to attend an out-of-town wedding, which means light packing and getting the babysitters situated for his children. Too much stuff, too little time. Note: We plan to discontinue "The Punchy Journal." Despite repeat

They Hate Purity and Goodness

Like we've always said: Abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and everything aren't about choice and freedom. Their about normalizing license. It's part of the same old moral revolution that started with the Enlightenment: Once everyone is freed of norms and moral restrictions, we'll be