Eric Scheske

Desperate times call for desperate measures: The Volstead Act didn't prohibit alcohol for medicinal purposes. Since beer had a history of being so used, the debate about its health value roared during the Roaring Twenties. Link [http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues05/apr05/presence.html]. Excerpt: >

> For those of you who don't keep up with the important news stories, the first Friday of May will be International No Pants Day. Why No Pants Day? Quite simply put . . . "when large groups of people parade aroundin public without their pants, amazing things are bound

We're against broken families, but . . . > A woman who helped her husband dig up a corpse and use it to fake his death in a fiery staged car accident was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison. > Officials said the body of an 81-year-old person

It's not 666. It's 616. Link [http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=702d14ee-4847-4c3d-90ce-46e933232df0] . Excerpt: > A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the

> Maury Povich was my neighbor, and he and his wife, Connie Chung, are two of the nicest people you'd ever want to meet. I saw his show just a couple of days ago, and it was all paternity tests and lie-detector tests, all stuff that I

> A fight between an elderly woman and a Cambodian Buddhist monk over an allegedly magic turtle required the reptile to be rescued and landed the monk in court on charges of impersonating a god, police said on Thursday. Link [http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/

> A subway pervert was caught in a flash yesterday by feisty Catholic schoolgirls armed with a cell phone camera in Queens, cops and witnesses said. > The suspect sicko flashed the teens twice last week as they rode the F train toward their high school in Jamaica Estates. >

"Scientists in Israel have developed a libido meter which measures a person's sexual desire. Is this new? Don't guys already come with a libido meter?" Leno on the Cosmetic Culture: "Ed Schantz, the man who invented Botox, passed away this week at the

We posted the ACLU's defense of NAMBLA's child-sex agenda, and now this blurb about the ACLU defending the right to drug children with methamphetamine. Maybe the ACLU is just pro-child torture. > "Michelle Ann Foust, 31, was jailed last Wednesday when a urine

Guess this has been circulating for awhile, but we hadn't seen it, so we're guessing a few of our readers haven't either: