Eric Scheske

A Class of Blue Buds Friday's Brews You Can Use We'd been suspecting it for a few years now, but this article from Forbes confirms it: conspicuous consumption has infiltrated beer, the most beautiful bastion of the blue collars. "The Italian word for chutzpah is

Modern Mating Fascinating speculation in today's Spectator about autism. After recounting the rise in autism in the past twenty years (possibly a ten-fold increase), the writer, Rod Liddle, discounts a few popular theories about why autism has increased, and then tells us that researchers are beginning to

Oh, Canada! The troublous trolley trundles forward in Canada. In furtherance of its same-sex marriage law, Ontario has a new bill that will rid all its statutes of non-gender-neutral references. Attorney General Michael Bryant stated, on introducing the bill, "Currently, the statutes offend the Charter of

Stem the Tide, No Canutin' on This Testimony from Patricia Payne in front of Massachusetts' newly created Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies: "Adult stem cells have treated and cured literally tens of thousands of people with almost 100 different diseases. How many people have

Another Clash Privacy and Technology fight again [http://nydailynews.com/news/gossip/v-echo/story/288576p-247020c.html](see post below). This time, it's Mick Jagger's daughter engaging in sexual activity in a hotel lobby and getting caught on videotape. A judge ruled that she had

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Clashing Gods Speaking of George (two posts below), he's back in the news, in the “Big Brother” context (does anyone remember Orwell for anything else these days?). This time, the dispute deals with strapping radio frequency badges on students in order to keep count of them. Some parents

Left Side of the Dial It looks like the days are over when a guy could turn on talk radio and assume the host is conservative. Liberal talk radio has taken off. The liberal talk radio network Air America "is on the verge of reaching 75 percent of the

Bedwetting and Corporal Punishment On a whim, we read from a collection of George Orwell essays last night before bed, particularly enjoying his "Such, Such Were the Joys . . .", an essay about his youth at Crossgates, a British boarding school and, near as we can tell, a prep school

Andy Griffith, Where Are You? Police in Williamsburg, Brooklyn ticketed a girl scout for selling cookies without a permit. Maybe the officer (presumably a member of the FOP) thought cookie-selling is a union job and he was just protecting the position from getting misappropriated by management. That theory makes