Author: Eric Scheie

Shit! I had barely gotten used to the WorldNetDaily idea that tofu makes you gay, only to learn that Common Core does pretty much the same thing: Replacing Florida’s Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) with a new statewide school exam based on the Common Core standards is part of an agenda to turn kids gay, according…

Not so fast! Here in Ann Arbor, young people who want to use app-based rideshare services are in for a rude awakening. The status quo is threatened: It didn’t take long for Ann Arbor city officials to call for an end to the newly launched rideshare services Uber and Lyft. On May 14, just three…

I have mixed feelings about the diagnosing of violent youth as diseased, but here’s the headline: Hood Disease: Inner City Oakland Youth Suffering From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder It’s what the government — and doctors at Harvard — are saying: OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — In the inner city, a health problem is making it harder for…

This atrocity is called “the Pupeko anti-ageing mouthpiece, which claims to tighten the cheeks as the user does breathing exercises.” While I understand that this is supposed to be a beauty enhancement device, I just can’t see wanting to look like an inflatable sex doll or like a fish, even if you take the thing out…

The other day I read a Salon article with a video purporting to be a “brilliant takedown” by TV commentators of climate skeptics. The TV expert claimed that debating Global Warming was like debating whether 2+2=4: On his new show, “Last Week Tonight” John Oliver took a much needed jab at the ridiculous and terrible…

So who has it? In the United States, the court’s ruling would clash with the First Amendment. But the decision heightens a growing uneasiness everywhere over the Internet’s ability to persistently define people against their will. “More and more Internet users want a little of the ephemerality and the forgetfulness of predigital days,” said Viktor…

A prominent politician who is on the Republican National Committee has said this in a fund-raising email I got earlier: …in the original Webster’s dictionary, which our forefathers knew well, they said we have certain inalienable rights … The definition of inalienable were those rights that were not repugnant to God (most were Christians and…

Is this wishful thinking on the part of Karl Rove, or does Hillary Clinton actually have brain damage? He said if Clinton runs for president, voters must be told what happened when she suffered a fall in December 2012. The official diagnosis was a blood clot. Rove told the conference near LA Thursday, “Thirty days…

I saw this on Facebook earlier. It’s been making the rounds, and while I see the point (that identity politics sucks), I am not sure that answering identity politics with identity politics does much more than perpetuate identity politics. Also, the use of the phrase “upside down” intrigued me, because it implies that there is…

Despite the fact that the Constitution has been thoroughly ransacked for profit, it’s video games that are ruining the country. On this vital point, the best minds on the left and right agree: “Grand Theft Auto…encourages [children] to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them.”—Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), July 14, 2005. “Every school massacre can be traced…

In Saudi Arabia, discussing religion can get you torture plus many years in prison: A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced the editor of a website that discussed religion in the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes. Raif Badawi, who started the “Free Saudi Liberals” website, was arrested in June 2012…

I guess it’s that time of night when I have to write a blog post lest I turn into a pumpkin. Anything happening? Yeah. According to an article linked by Drudge, the homos are making all kinds of trouble for the Sultan of Brunei.       BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–The pink stucco palace known as…

Chris Wallace is being excoriated for saying this: Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday became the latest voice on the conservative network to repeat incorrect information about climate change, and suggested that it was time to “worry about global cooling now.” During a segment about the economy on Fox News Sunday, former UBS CEO…

I don’t know whether this will have any effect on an intractable situation, but a group of Nobel Prize winning economists — along with Reagan’s former Secretary of State George Shultz — have warned that the war on drugs has failed big time: The global “war on drugs” has been a catastrophic failure and world…

According to this article, the relentless climate change harangue is driving children crazy: Child psychiatrists, psychologists and educators say they’ve seen an escalation in the anxiety levels of today’s youth, who are constantly exposed to doomsday talk about the destruction of our planet. But despite the fact that we live in a world with more…

Reading this, you’d almost think that conservatives want their fellow citizens imprisoned for victimless crimes: Last week, leading conservatives raised the alarm about yet another terrifying instance of “presidential lawlessness” from President Obama. What is it this time? New revelations of dragnet spying? Targeting more American citizens with flying robot assassins? Nope: He’s going to let…

Considering that it never has worked anywhere as an economic system, and considering the millions of people killed under Communism, saying that Marxism sucks (even though it is an understatement) seems entirely appropriate as today, May 1, is the day chosen by Marxists to champion their drivel. But of course, even opining against Marxism is a…

If true (unfortunately, I have learned to trust almost no person or source), this is incredibly sleazy and cruel: The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that Marian Harris and her family had brought their dog, Sid, to the Camp Bowie Animal Clinic in May 2013 to deal with a common anal gland problem. When Sid seemed to be…

Pushing up the definition of childhood and adolescence into adulthood is not a new idea, but this one takes the cake: Patients out of childhood but not yet fully mature have physical, developmental and social needs that often go unrecognized by doctors, studies show. The adolescent-young adult group, dubbed “AYA,” ranges in age from about 13…