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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

It Don't Get No Better Than This

> Two individuals from Hampton Roads, employees of the Norfolk-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, were arrested Wednesday night in Ahoskie, N.C., on animal cruelty charges. Link [http://www.wavy.com/global/story.asp?s=3482974&ClientType=Printable].

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