Eric Scheske

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Et Tu, Sydney?

Even the hard-drinking Australians are taking themselves too seriously and thereby taking alcohol too seriously: > Alcohol, George Bernard Shaw wrote, enables parliament to do things at 11 at night that no sane person would do at 11 in the morning. But sobriety, it seems, is back in vogue in

Unbelievable

The neo-cons at the White House are probably doing back flips and toasting champagne: > Actress and activist Jane Fonda says she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for an end to U.S. military operations in Iraq. > "I can't go into any

Promiscuity Problems, Episode 3,209,443

If ten-year-olds are getting pregnant, the problem ain't a lack of condoms: > Two recent publications circulating at the United Nations demonstrate a growing focus on young people as a way of advancing the abortion agenda. The reports, one by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and another

The Race Nonsense Continues

> A judge on Thursday threw out the deportation case against four young people who were brought to the United States illegally when they were toddlers. > U.S. Immigration Judge John Richardson granted a request to exclude key evidence in the case, ruling that border agents questioned the four

Are Japanese and Koren Women Good Looking?

> China will have more than 23 million men unable to find wives by 2020 because so many more boys are being born than girls, according to a study. > The widespread practice of aborting female foetuses is being blamed for creating a generation of bachelors who will pose increasing

The Abortion Litmus Test Keeps Coming

> A clear majority of Americans say John G. Roberts Jr. should be confirmed to serve on the Supreme Court but want him to state his views on abortion before the Senate votes on his nomination, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Link [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/

News Flash: Federal Program That Might Work!

We're not big friends of the No Child Left Behind spending, but it appears to be holding public schools' feet to the fire. Link [http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20050721-093749-7769r.htm]. Excerpt from Thomas Sowell op-ed: > There have been many bitter complaints from teachers and principals

Come Here, Marcy!

He played Peppermint Patty (a lesbian, at least according to Chris Rock) and wore funny pants. Reasoned Audacity tells us that there's a campaign to make conservatives think John Roberts might be gay. Hard to explain. Check it out yourself. Link [http://www.charmaineyoest.com/archives/2005/07/

The Absurdity Continues

NYC train searches: Eighty-six year-old white grandmother? Search her. Twenty-two-year-old Arab man? Maybe not. It's random, both for sensitivity reasons and, we assume, the warped Fourteenth Amendment: > Kelly said that, in general, every 10th rider - or some other set interval - would be stopped before they

The Continued Plummet of The Euro . . .

. . . and we ain't talking about currency: > A German magazine sold out in a day after offering readers vouchers for a free sex session at a brothel in Austria. > Readers of the Freizeit Magazine said they were shocked when they opened the mag to find a full