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Eric Scheske

"Another One-Finger Catch!"

> The Tennessee Titans general manager trumpeted his new free-agent acquisition, wide receiver David Givens, as a remarkable talent with “more Super Bowl rings than he's got fingers for”! > Givens has two rings. Link [http://suicideofthewest.com/?p=194].

Odds and Miscellany

The April issue of The Atlantic Monthly came yesterday. As usual, it has a lot of neat stuff, like these: At least one online bookie set odds for how the U.S. or Israel would deal with Iran. Odds from earlier this year: 4:1--Overt air strike by the

Web Award Winners

I spend more time surfing the web than I care to admit. Yet I routinely run across things--big things--that I've never even heard of, like the Annual Web Awards [http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/winners/], now in its ninth year. It has an assortment

The Bird Can be Profitable

Can you flip off a public worker, get citationed, and then sue under the 14th amendment and win? Apparently so [http://post-gazette.com/pg/06073/669903.stm].

Malthus was an Idiot

Amazing piece at Foreign Policy about declining birth rates and the return of the patriarchal society [http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3376&page=0]. It's lengthy. The best stuff is on the first 1.5 pages, if you want to take the short

Roe v. Wade for Men

My weekly column at Catholic Exchange [http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=32246] offers an extended analysis of Roe v. Wade for Men, if you care to check it out. Excerpt: > The feminists are opposing Roe v. Wade for Men. I suspect

Sirius Stock Slump

The Stern Network (a/k/a Sirius) stock has hit a 52-month low [http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SIRI&t=6m]. Good.

Free Starbucks

I don't like coffee and I don't like Starbucks and I don't like the consumerist culture it stands for. I don't even have a Starbucks in my home town (no, I don't live in hell). But I offer this, in

Cocky Counterfeiter . . . But Not Too Bright

Fire up the ethnic joke machines: > The counterfeit money looked good, but there was one flaw. There's no such thing as a one billion dollar bill. > U.S. Customs agents in California said on Tuesday they had found 250 bogus billion dollar bills while investigating a

"Like, Dude, How Can That Be?"

"How can what be?" "Dude, I forget, man" > Long-term users of marijuana gradually become worse at learning and remembering things, a new study suggests. [http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn8839.html]