Author: Eric Scheie

Dan Riehl (who watches Glenn Beck about as much as I do) criticizes the movement in the MSM and the liberal blogosphere to marginalize and eliminate Glenn Beck: It appears to be We must marginalize and eliminate Glenn Beck Day in the media and liberal blogosphere. That’s unsurprising, given a Tea Party movement that precedes…

With barely contained anger I informed the nurse that keeping an ill, 84 year old woman in a hospital corridor for 18 hours was not the type of care that anyone should be expected to tolerate. In fact my cat receives better treatment from his vet. That’s just a chilling glimpse from this horror story…

Speaking of being punked, Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen faced tough questions about Leviticus from what I suspect are atheist pranksters. (Possibly even of the sodomitic gay homo variety!) The problem is, eventually he catches on, and becomes evasive, and he gets away without answering why he considers only some parts of Leviticus to be binding…

Detroit Free Press Web Editor Mark W. Smith advances the speculative claim that Kanye West’s interruption of Taylor’s Video Music Award acceptance was a hoax, and that “we have all been punked”: What started as a rapper behaving badly quickly transformed into a three-act opus of tweeted outrage, must-see TV and tearful apologies, spanning three…

I realize distinctions can be tedious, but here I go again. Yesterday I complained about how sick I am of having to play offense. my natural distaste for joining what often seems like a constant stream of daily attacks, cranked out every day, all the time, is compounded by a creepy and irrational feeling that…

Over at the website of the producers of the ACORN child prostitution videos, I found a YouTube link to a film titled “BROKEBACK PRIESTS: PRIESTS TELL GAYS TO STAY GAY” described this way: Ben and James go undercover in Boston and get homosexual advice from two Reformed “Catholic” Franciscan Ministers. Here’s the “embed”: But if…

While I have no problem with paid sex between consenting adults, like M. Simon I have a major problem with prostitution involving children. (Which I define as those under the age of consent.) And I have a bigger problem with ACORN than I do with even the corrupt child prostitution advocacy that is leading to…

A post by Ann Althouse got me thinking about agents provocateur, and frankly, it’s giving me the heebie jeebies. Thanks to all my readers who gave immediate and overnight pushback to a vile new commenter… … who I assume was pro-Obama and writing under a pseudonym here with the object of making this blog —…

Dan Riehl has a very thoughtful post titled “Why The Right’s New Energy Needs A Positive Approach,” in which he discusses the distinction between defense and offense: …we’ve also been playing defense for many years, having to defend the Bush administration, particularly due to the war effort, as it was. Things have changed. It’s the…

Speaking of political surrealism, did you know that if you boil Pauline Kael slowly, she won’t jump out of the pot? And no frog ever knew a frog that actually voted for Nixon! Both statements are absolutely true. Honestly, I don’t see why people have to be so nit-picky, but Glenn Reynolds was taken to…

Just when I thought it was safe to go to bed, I saw a very scary post from Glenn Reynolds: A GOVERNMENT THAT FEARS ITS PEOPLE: SONIC WEAPONS USED IN IRAQ POSITIONED AT CONGRESSIONAL TOWNHALL MEETINGS IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY. The link went to this very ominous development: September 11, 2009 (San Diego) – “Long-range…

I know I’m a sucker for surrealism, but I think this 13-second video is absolutely hilarious, and I don’t especially care who made it, or what on earth they might have had in mind. Via Jim Geraghty, who has some observations about authenticity and toddlerhood which I’ll childishly disregard, not so much because I want…

Much as I hate playing hypothetical prosecutor for a day, regular commenter Steve Skubinna made me think about the government’s legal case against Andrew Sullivan, which I previously discussed mainly in philosophical terms. Here’s Steve’s comment: The fact remains that marijuana is illegal. Have as many opinions on whether it should be or not, but…

In a comment to my post about the Detroit Zoo, Patrick in Des Moines said that he’s sick of being preached to by people who see humanity as a threat to the planet: Just went to the zoo recently myself. I’m a big fan of Zoos, Aquariums and Museums, but have grown tired of being…

Considering some of the nastiness that has been going on in the blogosphere since the election of Barack Obama, “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” is probably good advice right now. Last night, I was a bit taken aback at the level of vitriol directed towards Stephen Green — for his crimes…

I wish I could have made it to one Tea Party or another, but I couldn’t. (Have to say, two million is an impressive figure.) Instead, I went to the Detroit Zoo, where I didn’t get to see signs like this one: However, I did see signs like this: While the sign from the Tea…

As regular readers of this blog know, I think drug laws — and I mean all drug laws, not just marijuana laws — suck. I have thought so for a long time, and I try to be consistent. I don’t care who the person is, when someone is facing drug charges, I defend him or…

Everyone is talking about apologies lately. Most of us hate to apologize. Me, I have a lot to apologize for — especially my role in the Columbine massacre, the Kennedy assassination, and other awful things. Usually, when most people apologize, it’s because they got caught, or else found it was politically expedient to apologize. Real…

Speaking of Republican political math, Larry Sabato has done a very detailed study of the 2010 congressional election, and concludes that there will be substantial Republican gains, but not enough to retake the House: After examining all 435 House races for 2010, the Crystal Ball projects that Republicans will gain between 20 and 30 seats.…

It’s very important to remember today, especially because so many people want to forget what happened eight years ago. And because it’s human nature to forget. I say this as someone who dislikes being repetitive, and while it’s tough to find anything new to say about 9/11, I did find a new (at least hitherto…