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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

School Officials Botch Test

What did we say back in the 1980s? "Psyche!" > Stressed-out seventh-graders taking a standardized exam to determine whether they'll be promoted got an unusual English lesson yesterday: A means F, B means G, C means H, and D means J. > The lecture

Stossel Re-Loads

20/20's John Stossel swings the ax again at public schools. He's slashing strawmen, in my opinion, but that's not his fault: the whole public school structure is a straw man. Excerpt from article: > The NEA says public schools need more money. That&

Canine Child Substitutes, Episode 182,009

Social networking for canines: > A site called Dogster [http://www.dogster.com/] gives our furry friends the opportunity to post photos, share their personalities, make new friends and even maintain blogs. On Dogster, which won the 2005 Webby Award in the community category, Web savvy humans take a back

DiLorenzo on Ethics Plan

One of the cleverest writers brings out Mencken to disabuse any hope for a decent ethics plan from Congress: > Today's AP news item that "Republican Congress Unveils its New Ethics Plan" led me to ask myself, "What would H.L. Mencken think of this?

Rich and Dumb

This reminds me of G.K. Chesterton's observation that in order to be smart enough to earn a lot of money, you must be dumb enough to want a lot of money (rough quote, at best): A developing list of stupid ways rich people spend their money [http:

Taking Revenge on Marx

> Pogroms and purges of Jews are a thing of the past in Russia, but as women scrubbed the bloodstained floors of Moscow's Chabad Bronnaya synagogue on Thursday, a day after a man burst in and stabbed worshippers, alarm spread over increasingly open anti-Semitism. > Jewish leaders

Multi-Cultural Hate Language

From Britain: > A black man escaped a possible jail sentence yesterday after claiming that swearing and using racist insults were part of his cultural identity [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1988901,00.html]. Billy Bob will done be gettin' himself to that thar England place

Anti-ADA

I'm not a big fan of the Americans with Disabilities Act (nice idea, but too many incidental casualties), but this is a bit much: > Two brothers with muscular dystrophy were made to crawl to their car after security guards at a Melbourne shopping centre refused to let

American Idol

I watched American Idol with my family last night. During these early segments, you see two things: (1) an early look at potential front-runners; (2) the untalented who look ridiculous. I've always enjoyed the untalented segments. Vain individuals think they can sing and then get mad when

News Flash: Ted Kennedy Looks in Mirror

> Sen. Edward Kennedy, who criticized Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's past membership in a controversial Princeton University alumni club, severed his ties Tuesday with a former Harvard college social club that bans women members. > "He has decided to be taken off their rolls, believing that