Author: Eric Scheie

Hardly my idea, but I thought I would check out the logic involved. With three vintage videos!

I know, I know. God hate flags. But let’s not dwell on the past. I don’t know why I am suddenly being reminded of old posts. Must be getting senile or something.

As that last post on “causation” reminded me, anything can be said to have caused anything. Especially when it comes to the war on drugs. Anything caused by the war on drugs can be and is said to have been caused by the drugs themselves. This includes insanely high prices, murder, corruption, terrorism, whatever. It…

I recently received an email invitation to attend a local lecture by a man named Rafael Cruz, who happens to be the father of GOP presidential contender Ted Cruz. I Googled him, and found this fascinating statement: Evolution is one of the strongest tools of Marxism. Because if they can convince you that you came…

Great minds agree. Global Warming caused ISIS. Because, like, there was a huge drought in Syria and the government handled it almost as incompetently as Bush handled Hurricane Katrina! So, just as babies eaten by alligators and owners of looted stores were Bush’s victims (and thus victims of Global Warming), when the Syrian populace turned…

While there are a lot of legitimate criticisms that can be leveled at the Republican Party, this one had me chuckling: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Democrat is not likely to win this state in the 2016 presidential election, not even one with the last name Clinton. But on Saturday, Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to…

That’s what scientists are studying. At a cost to the City of San Francisco of some $3.5 million. “It is now well-established that women of minority sexual orientation are disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic, with nearly three-quarters of adult lesbians overweight or obese, compared to half of heterosexual women. In stark contrast, among men,…

That’s where a lot of people say we’re headed, especially these days. I am reminded of this classic. (Not a new idea….)  

In light of the horrible massacre by an admitted racist and terrorist, President Obama has issued a renewed call for gun control. “Unfortunately, the grip of the NRA on Congress is extremely strong,” Obama said in a clip of the interview with “WTF with Marc Maron” posted by the New York Times. It was not the…

Speaking of things that don’t pass my smell test, here’s another piece of weirdness. Media reports do not agree on whether the Charleston shooter bought the gun himself, or his father bought it for him. According to CNN, Roof bought the gun himself: One key part of this horrific scheme — the weapon — came in…

I don’t post as often as I should, but right now I’m curious about something. Since when does a white supremacist gunman, lover of racist states like Rhodesia, apartheid South Africa, and the Confederate States of America have black friends? According to a number of reports, many of the man’s Facebook friends were black. And…

Another day, another gigantic Big Hack Attack. Not to sound like a nutjob, but sometimes I wonder who is hacking who. OPM officials said as recently as Thursday evening that they believed 4.2 million people—including 2.1 million current employees—were affected by the breach, but the background-investigation form breach suggests the number could be larger. The…

As M. Simon’s recent post makes clear, the War on Drugs is not only far from dead, but its proponents have come up with a new tack: target dissenters, like commenters to Reason. Prosecutors are targeting anonymous blog commenters by going after the blog proprietors with grand jury subpoenas. The prosecutor going after Reason contends that…

Originally, a man named Bruce Jenner said that when he identified as a man. Was he a man in those days? Did he change his Jenner? Or does a change of gender operate ex post facto? Have we always been at war with Gender? Someone please straighten out my confusion quick, or else I’ll end up…

Did you know that it is a federal crime to withdraw your own money from your own bank account in such a way as to avoid federal reporting requirements? And (according to federal law) the “crime” has absolutely nothing to do with what you plan to do with the money. The mere withdrawal is the…

Last night it looked as if the moon was full, and I took this picture of it. The photo is totally unaltered, but it reminds me of that ISIS flag that has brought so much joy into the hearts of psychopathic moonbats. All it would need is some squiggle marks, but I won’t deface my…

While it’s raining and only 50 degrees here in Ann Arbor, the fact is for many parents, it’s summer camp season. And thanks to the Internet, I just learned about a wonderful option! Summer camp in North Korea! The Songdowon International Children’s Camp in Wonsan is supposed to help young foreigners (especially from Communist countries)…

Back in the day, life in prison was a sentence handed out to murderers, rapists, and repeat violent offenders. Today, life in prison is seen as a perfectly appropriate sentence for putting together willing buyers and willing sellers of certain drugs– a malum prohibitum crime in which there are no victims. Unless, of course, you…

    Something worth remembering on Memorial Day.