Author: Eric Scheie

Did you know that if you like small breasts on women, you’re likely a “pedophile”? I didn’t, but today I learned that some people think that, and they’re just the kind of people who enjoy career censorship. In Australia, they’re behind an effort to insist on large-breasted women in porn. No really. (I couldn’t make…

Sean Kinsell has noted a downright authoritarian streak in Frank Rich, and quotes a remarkable passage from his column about President’s SOTU address: One year into Obama’s term we still don’t know whether he has what it takes to get American governance functioning again. But we do know that no speech can do the job.…

Over the weekend, M. Simon emailed me a link to a news item Glenn Reynolds had linked about the Pashtuns. Or should I say the “gay Pahstuns“? As if U.S. troops and diplomats didn’t have enough to worry about in trying to understand Afghan culture, a new report suggests an entire region in the country…

What is worse? Heightism or Obamacareism? More properly, I should say sexual Heightism or sexual Obamacareism for that’s what we’re talking about. First, take heightism: …A while back, I conducted a poll: “Would you go out with a guy who’s shorter than you?” Around 40 percent of the women who responded said: “Hell-to-the-no.” Another 32…

A story on the front page of the real estate section in today’s Detroit Free Press (“Rules hinder low-income buyers’ loans“) featured a young couple’s tale of woe over their failure to qualify for a federal loan: Lucas Harrison-Zdenek has tried twice since last summer to get a federal loan to buy a foreclosed home.…

What is a blogger to do when a hypothetical example turns out to be a real-life truth? And what is a right-of-center blogger to do when he finds himself feeling sorry for (and downright supportive of) the hated Michael Moore? As I will explain, both of these things have just happened to me. In order…

While publicly excoriating the Supreme Court at a State of the Union Address constitutes a new low by itself, in this case, the low is made lower by the fact that the president — a former constitutional law professor — didn’t even get his legal analysis right. Even leftie Times analyst Linda Greenhouse noted that…

Argentine president Christina Fernandez said something that I doubt our PETA-plagued president could have gotten away with saying: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s president thinks eating pig meat is really sexy. Many people in this beef-loving nation reacted with surprise Thursday after Cristina Fernandez promoted pork in a speech during which she not only…

Funny that I’d been talking about deeper subtexts and bullshit narratives earlier today, because I want to discuss a “moral” issue that’s been annoying me lately. “Moral” is in quotes because it has to be; I can’t figure out morality at all anymore. No really. Not just my morality, but anyone’s. (Everyone’s? Or is that…

I don’t want to dwell on the SOTU address (which I avoided live-blogging for that very reason), but what surprises me is that anyone would be puzzled by the president’s stubborn refusal to move himself (or urge his party to move) towards the center. I think he’s concerned with one thing only — winning reelection…

Yes. The president just said that. Again. In the SOTU address. For once I agree with the president’s words. (See my previous post.) MORE: At 09:49 p.m., he just said “Not now” again. It’s a mantra. Not now more than ever! MY OVERALL REACTION: While I get tired of his repetitive style of rhetoric, all…

When I visited Amsterdam a few years ago, I took an obligatory self-tour through the notorious “red light district” that has had so many people have been up in arms for so many years. It didn’t alarm me at all to see women wearing lingerie dancing in windows, although I soon learned that these were…

Am I a political blogger? Honestly, I don’t mean to be, as I have hated politics for years. The more tired I get of it, the more I hate it. It doesn’t help much to read about stuff like this: WASHINGTON–President Barack Obama intends to use Wednesday’s State of the Union address to put a…

Frank J. Fleming has an interesting (if somewhat controversial) idea for solving the problems in the Mideast: simply convert the Muslims to Christianity. After all, Christianity is a more peaceful religion, and as Frank points out, when was the last time anyone saw a Christian suicide bomber? …I think if we could convert many in…

When Glenn Reynolds linked Allahpundit’s post about Mike Huckabee doing better against Barack Obama than any Republican candidate, I was shocked. But here’s what the quoted poll said: Mike Huckabee has a 45-44 advantage over Obama, aided largely by a 44-38 lead with independents. There continues to be no evidence of any negative fallout for…

It strikes me that unless a patron were intoxicated, clowning around, or pushed (or maybe having a seizure), it would be very unlikely to fall through a priceless painting hanging on a wall at an art museum as is being widely reported. “How do you do that?” asked one news commentator incredulously. Beats me. Normal…

One of the memes frequently tossed about — especially by promoters of the various “caveman” diets — is how “we” (meaning all human beings) have not evolved since Upper Paleolithic times, and that illness results from our failure to limit our diet to what our Cro Magnon ancestors ate. The premise is that thousands of…

Like a lot of readers here, I was not happy when I saw the excerpt that M. Simon posted from Scott Brown’s post-election press conference in which Brown (after pausing to observe that it was “post election”) apparently endorsed national health care. Ugh! I am vehemently opposed to nationalized health care in any way shape…

Who is Ellie Light? She’s…simply…amazing! She appears everywhere, and writes, anywhere! In plenty of papers! Penning powerful paeans in praise of the President! “42 papers in eighteen states with dozens of different hometowns listed at last count“! Naturally, a lot of people want to know, and some have spent a great deal of time looking…

No, I didn’t invent that God-awful phrase, but thanks to Sean Kinsell, I found it — used in a deprecating manner by a commenter to Sarah Hoyt’s discussion of her writing and Robert Heinlein. Heinlein isn’t helped by the fact that he seems to be a favorite of libertarianesque geeks who spout sexist nonsense. It’s…