Author: Eric Scheie

Are we having a libertarian moment in politics? And would it matter if we were? It certainly pleases a libertarian to see a politician who is willing to stand up hardcore for the principles of liberty, all the way. Likewise, it makes most libertarians a little peeved or disappointed when a politician won’t do so.…

It’s getting so there’s almost nothing that can’t be found on Youtube, including a doowop favorite I just found. “Why Oh Why?” by the Click-ettes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrleOsUbLtc It was hard to make it in those days and the group struggled. The Clickettes formed in 1958 at Yorkville Vocational High School in Manhattan. The group had variously…

While the narrative promoted at the moment is that President Obama is winding down America’s wars, what is actually happening is that the machinery and war expertise are being shifted from use abroad to use domestically. Never mind the Constitution; police departments all over the country have been transformed into heavily-armed military occupation forces. …as…

Yes, the Feds have now targeted the artisan cheese industry. A sense of disbelief and distress is quickly rippling through the U.S. artisan cheese community, as the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced it will not permit American cheesemakers to age cheese on wooden boards. Never mind that these cheeses have been…

Drudge links another article which only confirms what has already been pretty well established and which common sense would suggest. Texting while driving is more dangerous than drunken driving. It’s obvious why. Unless they are completely blotto, drunken drivers at least are devoting their attention to their driving, while texters are somewhere else. Moreover, what the…

…was D-Day (aka the Normandy Invasion). Considering that I’m almost 60, it absolutely amazes me to read about D-Day veterans who are not only alive, but who are celebrating the anniversary in ways that I doubt many people could today. Like this 89 year old guy who escaped from his care home to join celebrations…

ATT Internet sucks big time. I still have no Internet service, and while I was told they’d be here between 4 & 8 today, and I waited for them, no one arrived. A supervisor told me they have an “emergency” with copper wire networking, but this is ridiculous. I hate to yell and scream, but it…

No internet at home! This really  sucks, and I can’t post easily from my phone. According to ATT, the problem is at their end, and they won’t be able to fix it until Thursday. Ugh!

In terms of opinions about foods, there is so much damn noise it’s tough to know where to begin: Paleo, vegan, gluten-free — the only certainty about health trends is their reversal Yeah and, No food trend is more powerful, and potentially dangerous, than one that targets health and diet. Yeah and, Health trends are…

I found this Salon “analysis” of mass murder very entertaining — especially the rhetorical question in the title itself: Why is it always a white guy: The roots of modern, violent rage The LAX shooter, once again, is reported to be a white male. Here’s why they’re always first to violence To drive home the…

Leave it to a drag queen to have some balls. “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” the reality-competition show RuPaul hosts on Logo, came under fire this past season for using “She-Mail” to describe messages from the host. (“Shemale” is considered a derogatory term for transgender people.) And RuPaul also courted controversy by remarking on Marc Maron’s podcast…

While my brain probably won’t live long for my having such opinions, I think this is so fucked up as to defy analysis: Five teenagers charged with murder over death of 17-year-old girl who took synthetic LSD as police trace drug supply chain First, the drug involved is not “synthetic LSD.” It is not chemically similar…

I am lucky enough to have my Middle School drinking fountain, which I found at a neighbor’s yard sale when I lived on the East Coast, and thought I recognized because I remembered the words on the foundry casting — “HAWS DRINKING FAUCET CO., BERKELEY, CA.” After plunking down my five bucks, I asked the…

Coco has a new boyfriend. He’s a huge 9 month old puppy named George, and he is going to be one big bruiser. They almost look related, so it was love at first sight. Coco wanted to go home with him.

Hope everyone had fun. And be sure to remember.    

A word now used mainly by certain members the race it was originally intended to degrade has turned into a monster — the use of which can have devastating consequences. A Tennessee man who was accused of using a racial slur on a receipt at a Red Lobster restaurant last year is suing the restaurant…

That’s what pro-Drug War prosecutors are saying about a billboard near the El Paso border which is widely seen as a threat by the drug cartels: Two frightening incidents of vandalism in El Paso near the Mexican border in Texas have been interpreted as warnings from drug cartels. In both instances, a mannequin wearing a…

So says the Duck Dynasty guy who probably wants to be considered the great bearded prophet to denounce evil America. Oddly enough, I agree with him that “sin” is not logical. I’ve never been able to see any logic in arguments to authority. Sure, lots of things are considered sins by lots of religions, but…

An earwax-eating Democrat seems to have declared that Communism works: Democratic Florida Rep. Joe Garcia — fresh off being caught eating his own earwax on camera — was caught red-handed (or is it yellow-fingered?) in another gaffe this week, claiming that low crime rates in border cities with lots of federal immigration workers is proof…

That’s what they always say in cases like this: Witnesses say that Brendan Houston, a first-grade student at Herndon Magnet School, had alighted the bus in North Highland, a suburb of Shreveport, when he realized his shoe laces had been tied together. He stopped to fix the laces, but the bus driver, Debra Stevens, didn’t…