Author: Eric Scheie

That is what I have been told repeatedly — both by commenters I don’t know at all and by friends like M. Simon, who recently said, “Where I might have given Jennings a pass as a single as a parent I’m not comfortable with him.” Of course, I never said I was comfortable with him.…

While I can’t believe that anyone would take another movie by America-hating hypocrite Michael Moore seriously, apparently some people are. The film has been gushingly praised by Arianna Huffington, who wants President Obama to see it, and I find it typical of Moore’s intellectual perfidy that he starts the film out by resorting to “a…

The Secret Service has closed its investigation of the Facebook poll asking whether President Obama should be assassinated: WASHINGTON — The Secret Service has determined that a juvenile was behind the online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, an agency spokesman said Thursday. No criminal charges will be filed…

Hey suppose I asked “What do Bill Maher and [name omitted] have in common?” Because I said [name omitted] (who will remain blank), no one would know what I was talking about, so they would draw a complete blank. About Blank. What if I said that this Blank was having a huge blog war with…

I am so not-in-the-mood for blogging that I feel like flaking out totally. But that wouldn’t do, would it? I have a blog which is alive and which requires daily posts, and to not supply them is tantamount to negligence. Like having a fish tank (which I have) and neglecting to put food in it.…

My biggest problem right now is that I can’t stand Obama, but that has not translated into loving conservatism. Now, while that equation might not seem terribly problematic in itself, and it might even constitute remarking the obvious, there’s an added dimension. While I may be wrong about this, it seems to me that conservatism…

I had not wanted to write about (much less argue about) the rather tedious gay politician Kevin Jennings, but for reasons which elude me, I feel that my hand has been forced. Or has it? Should I be entitled to ignore issues that are raised here at my own blog? Do I have any duty…

You learn something every day, and I just learned something cool about Facebook: “The mere use of the word ‘retard’ is not a violation of terms of use.” I’m 100% in favor of free speech, even when the speech in question is not within the rubric of my day-to-day vocabulary. I often get spontaneous, though,…

M. Simon sent me a link to a piece which makes some fascinating assertions about what otherwise appears to be a relatively simply piece of legislation (HR 3567), the operative text of which says this: For the purposes of any Federal law in which marital status is a factor, an individual shall be considered married…

Or something like that. In his characteristically circular manner, Jerry Garcia explains why the Grateful Dead never bothered with anti-war politics and didn’t write anti-war songs — in a video of anti-war demonstrations to the tune of “Cream Puff War”: All in all, it’s a remarkably good period video, and I recognized some people I…

Quick question. Can cigarette smoke travel through walls? Because either it can or it can’t, and this angry woman has filed a lawsuit saying that her neighbor’s cigarette smoke did in fact go through walls of her townhouse: In an age when smoking has been outlawed in most public places – government buildings, bars and…

Despite the occasional but fervent rantings of idiotarians like Matt Barber, gays in the United States generally do not seem to realize how good they have it. While Bush was president, an observation like that would have qualified as a gay Uncle-Tomism. But now that we have a “progressive” president who has made it clear…

Is there a conflict between freedom of speech and freedom of religion? I don’t think there is, but I think the courts may have screwed things up to the point where people are forgetting something about the nature of free speech. A recent example involves a group of high school cheerleaders in Florida who were…

Anyone remember this cartoon? Far be it from me to criticize artists, but in light of this news report, I think the bomb might be in the wrong place: (CBS) Al Qaeda has developed a new tactic that allows suicide bombers to breach even the tightest security, as CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports. Inside…

For over 14 years, I have been running 3 miles nearly every other day. I had to force myself when I started back in 1995, and I hated running then and now. Really, I hate it about as much now as I did when I started. What I have never quite been able to understand…

I just learned that old blogfriends Kim and Connie du Toit have a new radio show that promises to be most exciting. The Kim and Connie Show begins on Saturday October 3rd on BlogTalkRadio.com. According to Connie, they “hope to present something akin to a ‘Salon’ but the show will probably take on a life…

There are those who believe that taking the Bible literally can be a form of satire, and cartoonist R. Crumb is one of them: PARIS — Subversive US cartoonist Robert Crumb, whose take on the Bible is about to be released worldwide, says people are “totally nuts” for taking the book so seriously for so…

In a painfully thoughtful piece, Hollywood insider Roger L. Simon looks at the Roman Polanski case, and concludes that he is a metaphor for Hollywood: Look, Polanski is weak like the rest of us. But in the end, there is something about him that is a metaphor for Hollywood – despite that he has been…

An Indiana grandmother has been arrested for buying more sudafed than the law allows: CLINTON — When Sally Harpold bought cold medicine for her family back in March, she never dreamed that four months later she would end up in handcuffs. Now, Harpold is trying to clear her name of criminal charges, and she is…

Gregory Kane thinks it would have been better for conservative bloggers to have ignored the Van Jones story in the hope that he would stay in office until shortly before the 2012 election– at which time his “exposure” could provide the much-needed ammo that the GOP will need to win: …did Republicans and conservatives do…