Author: Eric Scheie

Speaking of making unfair associations, it has come to my attention that Facebook is associated with a rise in syphilis. No really: Professor Peter Kelly, director of public health in Teesside, claimed staff had found a link between social networking sites and the spread of the bacteria, especially among young women. He said: “Syphilis is…

What does it take these days to rebut or debunk a lie? Maybe I am living on another planet from some of my fellow citizens, but I thought the claim that Tea Party protesters shouted the N-word at a congressman had been thoroughly debunked by people who simply took time to review the numerous videos…

I’ve been writing this blog for nearly seven years, and one of the reasons I started it was because I was tired of the “EITHER YOU’RE A LIBERAL OR YOU’RE A CONSERVATIVE” dichotomy. It what has always struck me as a process of collusion, libertarians were simply written out of the equation. Since the election…

While it’s hardly a crisis (and in the light of the Obamacare atrocity it may seem downright frivolous), the more I think about a seemingly minor annoyance yesterday, the more it deserves a post, as I think it sheds light upon the downright despicable mentality of activists. A neighboring family consists of a husband and…

Abe Greenwald likens the unbelievable nature of our present predicament to one of those tales of a frightening possible future. Problem is, the nightmare is true: …we’re living in one of those clever political columns written as an over-the-top straight story from a frightening future. “After seizing the American automobile industry almost a year ago,…

Sorry for such an unoriginal post title, but I guess the nose grows. By signing the health care bill today, President Barack Obama did what he specifically and repeatedly said during his campaign that he would not do. He imposed an individual mandate. This was quite a topic during the hard-fought primary campaign between Barack…

M. Simon’s mention of drivers licenses reminded me of one of the most annoying features of the health care debate, and that is the false analogy the Democrats make between mandatory auto insurance and mandatory health insurance. Few things insult me more than to be lectured like a child by a lecturer who is demonstrably…

Melissa Clouthier thinks Obamacare is deliberately divisive: I don’t believe health care will go away. I believe it will divide us, create chaos, and turn the conversation away from big dreams and freedom to provincial “my piece of the pie” talk. Health care “reform” makes America small. That’s just the way Democrats like it. She’s…

While I haven’t had time to blog since this morning and now I’m tired out, I’m taking time right now because I consider this statement from Dana Loesch the quote of the day: Last night, a new party was born; the malignant tumor that is the progressive caucus consumed the Democrat party from within and…

Now that the best health care system known to man seems officially doomed, it is not surprising that some people on the right are succumbing to doom and gloom thinking. (I don’t want to point fingers, because the point is not who is saying it, so much as whether the argument has merit.) Being a…

Bastards. Yeah, they passed it. (Thanks once again to Stupak and his ongoing abortion con game.) A lot of people are reacting, but I especially liked Megan McArdle’s question: Are we now in a world where there is absolutely no recourse to the tyranny of the majority? There’s always recourse, and one form of recourse…

In what I think was a remarkably idiotic display, Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm proclaimed that yesterday (Saturday, March 21, 2010) all Michiganders should refrain from eating meat! From Friday’s Free Press: Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Thursday that she won’t rescind her proclamation urging Michiganders to forgo meat-eating on Saturday, even as new demands arrived in…

Yesterday there was quite an uproar over the alleged use of the N-word by Tea Party demonstrators in front of black congressional representatives. This morning I see (via Glenn Reynolds) that Dana Loesch has posted a video of the “incident” which debunks the claim that the N-word was used. (Anyone want to bet whether there…

In an earlier post in which I discussed Dick Armey’s gloomy predictions that Obamacare would pass, I opined that while Dick Armey’s remarks might discourage ordinary political activists, they would be unlikely to deter the Tea Partiers: I think that even if Armey somehow did cause the activists to stay home, the real people would…

There are a lot of theories about what looks very much like the image of a face on an apple in front of Michelle Obama on the latest Newsweek cover. I saw Ann Althouse’s discussion, and she thinks it looks like Karl Marx. Here’s Newsweek’s incriminating apple, followed by Karl Marx: Whether it’s Marx or…

I was trying to ignore a Philadelphia area incident which a Wal-Mart customer managed to get on the store’s intercom and make the following “announcement“: “All black people leave the store now.” Observed a friend who emailed me the ink: How hateful! My god, what a blubbering, humorless cry-baby mentality. I wonder what would have…

Probably because I don’t like repeating myself, I don’t say as much about police abuses as I should. Stuff like SWAT team abuses, civil rights violations committed in the name of the “drug war,” and police retaliation against critics, go on all the time, as do a lot of things I don’t find the time…

Glenn Reynolds and Rand Simberg have pointed out something which is culturally very important: the Democrats have lost Howard Stern: When you lose Howard Stern you’ve lost ordinary, everyday people. Politically, Stern is left-center to left-leaning and casually to moderately well-informed. He is done with democrats. He now sees them as communists. Many of his…

It occurred to me that I was wasting my time earlier when I tried to interpret the uninterpretable Joe Biden. So I found Joe Biden’s gaffe-free inner Trololol voice, and decided to just let it speak for itself. As you can see, he has never made more sense. Enjoy.

When ABC’s Jake Tapper asked, “Do you hear back from venerable* [Congressional Democrats] who are worried this bill will cost them their jobs?” the thoroughly incomprehensible Joe Biden shared his “thoughts”: BIDEN: Well, I yes. Some of them I say they say, well, Joe, look, man, I mean, you know, you guys haven’t massaged this…