Eric Scheske

Unscrewed John Zmirak reviews an unheralded movie [http://www.godspy.com/reviews/Mary-and-Joseph-at-the-Sex-Therapist-by-John-Zmirak.cfm] , Unscrewed. It's an entertaining article. The movie and review in a nutshell: A young married couple is inexplicably unable to have sex. They consult all

For the “Fact Stranger than Fiction” Category We're not positive this story is real, but it appears to be. Students in Bible quiz competitions are being tested for performance enhancers, like ephedra, large doses of caffeine, and ginseng. LINK [http://www.larknews.com/march_2005/secondary.php?page=

Fat No More We're sure most readers have heard this statistic that's being tossed around: Nearly two-thirds of Americans are overweight and about half of those are considered obese. That fat fact drove the effort against McDonald's "Supersized" menu items and

Raising Readers A neat article at Lew Rockwell encourages parents to get their children to read a series of books in order to turn them into adult readers. The article then lists a dozen such series (listed below, along with a link to the article and an excerpt from the

Another Breast Story A photographer in NYC discovered what we already knew: There's too much sex in our culture, it's become normalized, and we've become desensitized to things that would've brought prison sentences in a more modest era. LINK [http://nydailynews.com/

The Other Performance Enhancer A reader sends along this message: “If society is opposed to steroids in sports/recreation, then enhanced breasts should be damned as well.” We're not sure what prompted the letter (maybe the gorilla/breast story from earlier today?), but he has a point. Eric

No Tears Here We'll admit it: there's something about the whole coffee house industry that bugs us. Maybe it's the conspicuous consumerism of the whole thing: $3.00 for a cup of coffee. Maybe it's the academic pretension we acquaint with it.

Conservatives Distrust Authority? David Greenberg at Slate has written a scathing criticism of Thomas E. Woods' The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. Essentially, Greenberg is using Woods' book to stab at what he calls “populist conservatism,” a type of conservatism that “exhibit(s) scorn for intellectual authority

Breasts and the Beast No cost too great in the pursuit of proving species equality: Everyone has heard of Koko, the gorilla who lives at the Gorilla Foundation and knows a thousand words in sign language. News of the Weird reports that two of Koko's female handlers filed

Non-Eugenic Thought The March 14th issue of U.S. News & World Report has a short article on page 66 about Down syndrome children. According to the piece, parents of Down syndrome children often find them a unique blessing, but doctors "don't do an adequate job