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Eric Scheske

Blogging from the East Shore of the Roman Sea

Long-time readers of this blog (say, for the past four months) may remember that The Jerusalem Post is the publication that refers to "the homo-lesbian community," much to my amusement. Link. [https://thedailyeudemon.com/721/] Well, I just found out that TJP is heavy into blogging.

Battling Away for the Low Ground

> Penthouse Media Group Inc., publisher of the men's magazine, raised $48 million in part to fund an adult entertainment broadcast network that would compete with Playboy Enterprises Inc.'s Spice and New Frontier Media Inc.'s Erotic. > Penthouse raised $15 million in preferred stock

Emphasize Fun . . .

. . . or RAMMIN' THE BLEEPIN' BALL (PUCK, SHUTTLECOCK, FRISBEE) DOWN THE OTHER TEAMS' THROAT? > Twenty million kids register each year for youth hockey, football, baseball, soccer, and other competitive sports. The National Alliance for Sports reports that 70 percent of these kids quit playing these league sports

The Urinator

I've written previously [https://thedailyeudemon.com/?p=91#comments] about the virtues of outdoor urination, but I've never condoned it in urban areas, and I wouldn't be as dense as this fellow: > Police say they found Spencer Michael Killette, 21, of 132 S.

Uh oh?

> A bicyclist was charged with manslaughter after he ran through a stop sign and struck and killed a 71-year-old woman, police said Monday. > Jean Calder died at Good Samaritan Hospital after she was struck Friday night as she crossed a street at an unmarked crosswalk, Corvallis

Letterman on Girl Names

> Hurricane Ophelia and the one in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina. Maybe if we didn't name these things with cute girl names people would take them more seriously.

I Just Don't Get It

I don't object to the nudity. I object to the absolute stupidity and vacuity of it all: > Almost 1,500 men and women stripped naked in the name of art in the French city of Lyon. > They gathered before dawn to join the latest nude photo

March of the Penguins

March of the Penguins has appealed to conservatives, according to the New York Times this morning. Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/science/13peng.html?pagewanted=1&8hpib]. Excerpt: > [C]onservative groups have turned its stirring depiction of the mating ordeals of emperor penguins into an

Debit Cards

I've heard the stories of people using Red Cross debit cards to shop at luxury stores like Neiman Marcus. Now, WSJ's James Tarano has re-produced an interview with one of the recipients. I love the man's reference to deserving a debit card. That

Sixties to Superdome

John McWhorter at Times Online [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-524-1774271-524,00.html] draws connections from the 1960s to the Superdome Scandal. > In 1966, however, a group of white academics in New York developed a plan to bring as many people onto the welfare