Eric Scheske

We voted for the man, twice, but his embrace of big government makes us shudder. An excerpt from last night's Q&A regarding No Child Left Behind: > But we spend a lot of money here at the federal level and have increased the money we spend

This out of London: > Dog-lovers have taken 2.7 million working days off to care for their sick pets over the last two years, according to a survey on Thursday. > Ten percent of owners missed five days of work, with half of these taking up to two

Posting should be light today. Eric Scheske is on assignment, going undercover as a Vatican agent of B16 to undermine democracy in the Midwest in order to clear the way for a B-Squared (Bush-Benedict) theocracy. His assignment today is to penetrate public libraries and tear the Bill of

The first Saturday of May is National Homebrew Day. It's eight days away, but there's no reason you can't start drinking now in anticipatory celebration. Link [http://news.ratebeer.com/Beer-News/Article-467.htm]. Excerpt: > In 1979, the American Homebrewers Association named

They got themselves a dilemma in Oregon. Salmon are an endangered species. They're bottle-necked somewhere along the Columbia River. Sea lions--carrying substantial clout as protected species under the federal 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act--are eating them like popcorn. Authorities don't know how to

Blacks are coming over to the Republican Party in greater numbers. They tend to support vouchers and faith-based initiatives, and they oppose gay marriage. The WSJ has an article about one particularly-flamboyant dreadlocked man, Ted Hayes, that we'd love to meet. Link [http://www.opinionjournal.com/

There's a fairly entertaining and different kind of essay at Lew Rockwell today about the politics of Rube Goldberg. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker52.html]. Here's an excerpt, setting forth Goldberg's distrust of what Russell Kirk referred to as "defecated rationality&

We heard those words about, oh, thirty times a day while growing up, often after being in the house for only thirty seconds. Turns out it was probably good instruction. NYT Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/garden/28kids.html?]. Excerpt: > Doctors, teachers, therapists and even coaches

Sex is too often associated with drinking. It's part of the "wild and get drunk" stereotype that leads to all sorts of laborious restrictions on drinking that affect us responsible drunks. One of the worst examples of sex and drinking: the spiking of girl's

The final Star Wars movie is poised to burst on the nation. It might be time to consider, again, the religion of Star Wars. We like Terry Mattingly's concise overview. Link [http://tmatt.gospelcom.net/column/1997/01/29/]. Excerpt: > The faith in "Star Wars"