Eric Scheske

K-8 or Sex Bait There's strong evidence that the entire middle school experiment (which started in the 1950s) has been a total bust. K-8 schools are springing up all over the place in the public school sector, including in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Oklahoma City.

Desperate Housewife Territory We've always been interested in urban sprawl, the emptiness of suburban life, and the potential for downtown urban revival. According to this article [http://www.architecturemag.com/architecture/reports_analysis/design_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000780668] from Architecture Magazine, there is no downtown urban

Norm! Friday calls for beer news. This is one of the better stories we could find. “Tom Ciccateri proved that the fourth time may be the charm when he was chosen Beerdrinker of the Year during finals competition in Denver. Ciccateri, who had made the finals three other times, will

First SI, Now the NFL? "Bowing to pressure from gay-rights advocates, the NFL Shop will now allow buyers of personalized jerseys to have the word "GAY" sewn onto the back of their shirt. A homosexual-news syndicate reported today that the league claimed it wasn'

Nasty 'Bout Christians A recent study says that NBC is by far the worst network when it comes to treating religion negatively. From September 2003 to September 2004, it had 9.5 negative treatments of religion for every positive one. Of the other networks monitored (ABC, CBS, Fox, PAX,

Eternal Drinking Yesterday, we referred readers to a blog known as The Inn at the End of the World. We're guessing that the blog takes its name from from the ending of G.K. Chesterton's 1906 study, Charles Dickens. Regardless, we find GKC's final

Well, We Can Hope, Anyway "THE SUICIDE of Hunter S. Thompson, aged 65, according to the New York Times, or 67, according to the Washington Post, at his home in Aspen, may definitively mark the conclusion of the chaotic 'baby-boomer' rebellion that began in the 1950s

We Didn't Say It CBS News veteran Dan Rather, who's leaving the anchor chair next week amid lingering embarrassment over the President Bush-National Guard flap, is under no illusions that everyone wishes him well. "If I went to Times Square this afternoon and immolated

God Bless Clerics with Guts Excerpt from the Rocky Mountain News: "Verbal fisticuffs broke out Tuesday between Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput and a luncheon audience that challenged him to defend the church's role in public life. "'Why do (religions) feel they have to impose their

The Real Feminine Mystique? The following paragraph from an otherwise forgettable book review [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1496529,00.html] on the Times Online startled us a bit. We're not saying it's true, funny, or anything else. Just kind of eyebrow-raising: