Eric Scheske

Issue XIV Welcome to XIV. Possibly the best sentence with "fourteen" in it comes from a guy who recounted, "I once got so drunk on slo-gin that I couldn't touch it again until I was 14." We don't endorse underage drinking,

No More Pornography Canutin'? Here's an interesting article [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/03/06/x_ed_out?pg=full] from the Boston Globe about the conspicuous absence of feminist voices against pornography. The industry is expanding, the article notes at the beginning:

If It's Ugly, It's Planned Parenthood Well, mutilating fetuses isn't enough for Planned Parenthood. Now they're going for the genitalia. From this morning's Dawn Patrol, quoting from a column by a PP rep, Alicia Fraser: "Female genital piercings not

Angel in the Waters Sophia Institute Press published Angel in the Waters by Regina Doman last year. Says Sean Dailey, Editor of Gilbert Magazine, this children's book about the gestation of a baby “relates more truth and beauty about the miracle of life than any hundred screaming position

Preventing the Gay Columbines The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) claims that only eight states and the District of Columbia properly support homosexual, bisexual, and transgender students. GLSEN apparently promotes its cause under the guise of preventing bullying. What “GLSEN does is use efforts to stop bullying as

Runaway Train! Runaway Train! The higher education establishment is out of control, and it's burdening our young adult population with a lot of debt. “A fifth of recent college graduates report having postponed having children because of their college loans. The average 2002 graduate has almost $20,000

New and Improved Bums There are new bums in town: "freegans." Freegans scour trash dumpsters and eat leftover food as a political statement. According to a freegan interviewed in The Bergen Record (New Jersey), "It feels good when you watch all those people paying for food."

Rabbits Endorse Gay Marriage! Have you heard about the PBS kids TV show, “Postcards from Buster”? In this 40-episode series, a rabbit named “Buster” and his dad, an airplane pilot, fly around America visiting real kids and learning about their regions. One show is called “Sugartime.” In this episode,

Slouching Toward George Orwella? What's gonna be the Democratic Party's strategy for 2006 and 2008? It might be "reframing," according to a review by Marc Cooper in the April 2005 Atlantic of George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant (sorry,

Couldn't Resist We typically don't cut-and-paste stories simply for the oddity of them, but this one has a very high Bizarre-to-Word Ratio. From News of the Weird, it has everything: drinking, the KKK, violence . . . "A jury in Nacogdoches, Tex., convicted Jerry