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Eric Scheske

Calling Wendell Berry

An article in the June 20th issue of U.S. News & World Report speculates that suburbia might be bad for our health. A few excerpts (no link available): > Since 1960, the number of people commuting to work out of the county they live in jumped by 200 percent.

Defending Cell Phones

Jeffrey Tucker does a pretty good job of decrying the recent criticism of the cell phone (e.g., it's an addiction). Link [http://www.mises.org/story/1849]. His main point: The criticism is just more of the intellectual, Commie-tainted, anti-free market psychobabble that we always

The Raging Atheist

The July 4th issue of The American Conservative has a good review by Marian Kester Coombs of America's Most Hated Woman: The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O'Hair. A few excerpts (no link available): > Despite (or perhaps because of) an IQ of 150,

Brews You Can Use II

> Pabst Brewing Co. has discontinued selling Falstaff beer, once one of the largest selling beer brands in America. Link [http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002585.php]. We shed a tear. Back in the 1980s, Eric bought many cases of this stuff. At $5.00, it couldn'

Brews You Can Use

The Chinese are out-malling us (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1133/]) and competing with us in food and sex (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1369/]), but we still got 'em in the beer arena: > The beer industry in China is way behind in levels of sophistication....you're

You're All Winners!

> This year's 406-member graduating class at Garfield High School features 44 valedictorians. Forty-four students with perfect 4.0 grade-point averages who, over seven semesters of mostly honors and Advanced Placement classes, have never earned less than an A. Link [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/

Calling Norman Vincent Peale

An MIT economist studied the effects of religion on financial well-being, according to U.S. News & World Report. What did he find? > First, he finds that religious participation is highest in those places where there is a high density of people sharing the same religious preferences; and

Grad Student's "High"er Purpose

But if he's gay, meth might be part of his sex routine. Wouldn't it then be protected as a civil right? > A San Diego State graduate student on probation for drug violations used a university lab to make methamphetamine, Ecstasy and an anesthetic 80 times

The Waste Shuttle

John Derbyshire on that monstrosity of wastefulness, the space shuttle, and our ongoing obsession. Link [http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200506160749.asp]. Excerpts: > Like the monster in some ghastly horror movie rising from the dead for the umpteenth time, the space shuttle is back on the launch pad. This

Gender Equality Advances Another Step

> Four North Texas high school varsity cheerleaders put human feces on a pizza during a cheerleading camp and then returned the pizza to a rival high school squad, claiming the rivals had done the disgusting deed, school district officials confirmed this week. . . > Such behavior, once unthinkable, is increasing,