Eric Scheske

Million Degraded Babes The Washington Monthly has published a hard hitting (heh heh heh) essay [http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0503.wallace-wells2.html] against female boxing. It turns out that Million Dollar Baby isn't just a warped film about the glory of euthanasia. It's

NOW Has a Cow (Again) The only woman ever to serve as president of the NRA, Marion Hammer, will be inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame. And the feminists are mad. It appears the expansion of women's opportunities is good only if the expansion

Erase Race Funny op-ed in the Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/03/13/do1306.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/03/13/ixop.html] this morning about classifying people by race. The writer contacted various agencies in Britain in order to determine what

The New Pot Heads Another study [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=711&e=15&u=/usatoday/20050310/tc_usatoday/electronicworldswallowsupkidstimestudyfinds] crying for a Marshall McLuhan revival: "The USA's children live in an increasingly heavy stew of media, spending about 6½

Big GKC We've been told we don't post enough pictures. It's true that we don't post many, but this blog is a little different. In addition to commentary about current events, we post literary and historical references that you don't

Something for Sunday Morning Be Still The spiritual state of stillness has fortified Christians throughout history. The teenage Origen (the first great Christian intellectual) stationed himself on the road where Christian martyrs were being led to their deaths and defied the Romans by saluting the victims with a kiss. When

Director of Mental Waste Ah, those public school educators. They're always thinkin'. Scottsdale, Arizona public schools have changed some of their job titles. They don't have a receptionist, for instance. They have a "Director of First Impressions." Bus Driver? No longer, you'

Blog Survey A blog reader survey is up [http://www.blogads.com/survey/2005_blog_reader_survey.html]. Based on 30,000 responses, the survey says blog readers tend to make decent money (over 60% make $60,000+ per year; over 40% make $90,000+); they tend to be male

On Teddy's Virility Good essay by Harvey Mansfield [http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/23/mar05/mansfield.htm] about Teddy Roosevelt's manliness. Here are two excerpts: In a notable chapter of his Autobiography entitled “Outdoors and Indoors,” Roosevelt says that love of books and love of outdoors

Equal Rights Shooting A reader points out to us: "In all the TV and newspaper coverage of the Fulton County fiasco in which a judge, a stenographer, and a deputy were shot, did you once read that the deputy who was overpowered and whose gun was taken was a