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Eric Scheske

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> 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

Go Get Yourself . . .

. . . some cheap sunglasses. Historical miniature on the origin of tough guys with dark glasses: > This association is of relatively recent origin. Once worn only by the blind, dark glasses first appeared in the context of dangerous sports such as auto racing and mountaineering around 1930. A generalized connection with

A More Fitting Tribute

Thomas DiLorenzo at the Lew Rockwell blog has provided a pretty good tribute to Mencken: a gaggle of great quotes. Sample: > Politicians "are seldom if ever moved by anything rationally describable as public spirit; there is actually no more public spirit among them than among so many burglars

I'm Feeling a Bit Nauseous

> Brokeback Mountain stars Jake Gyllenhaal and an amazing Heath Ledger as cowboys who discover they are gay while falling in love during a summer of shepherding and spend the next 20 years wishing they could be together instead of in loveless marriages. Link [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/

Happy Birthday, Mencken

Today is the great writer's birthday. I found the tribute at Lew Rockwell [http://www.lewrockwell.com/taylor/taylor111.html] disappointing, but I've excerpted the one decent passage in appreciation for bringing this important day to my attention: > I read that Mencken [http://www.mencken.