Author: Eric Scheie

While it doesn’t change my mind about the President or his policies, the brutal threats made by Iranian officials are chilling in their utter depravity: …in an unprecedented statement, a former Iranian official has warned of mass abductions and brutal killings of American citizens around the world and the rape and killing of one of…

A girl in a local Detroit area park recently went out of her way to save the life of a small snake her brother was about to kill. As a snake lover myself, I can appreciate her act of kindness, but she should have been more careful. It turned out to be a rattlesnake, and…

As we all know, PETA cares. But until today I had no idea that they cared so much about penis size: According to a letter from PETA to Drew Cerza, the founder of the festival, “The latest scientific evidence shows that the sons of pregnant women who consume chicken are more likely to have smaller…

Obviously feeling the heat internationally, Vladimir Putin has launched an interesting defense of Russia’s odd new law against “homosexual propaganda.” Tchaikovsky, claims Putin, provides proof that Russia is not anti-gay: Russia’s pride in composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, even though he was gay, is proof that the country does not discriminate against homosexuals, President Vladimir Putin said…

I know I’ve been kvetching about this before, but the coming massive invasion of privacy by the federal government is going to make the NSA scandal look like a walk in the park: With just six weeks until scheduled implementation of the ObamaCare health insurance exchanges, delays by the Department of Health and Human Services…

Yesterday I tried to do what I thought would be my Good Deed for the Day. I found a lost phone in a local park, a fairly new-looking Samsung smart phone, and I thought I would do the right thing by finding the owner and letting him or her know that the phone had been…

In the WSJ, I read about a new game for the children called the “knockout game”: Reports of the game have surfaced in states, such as Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois. In Missouri, a special police squad and prosecutor were assigned to battle the problem. The game there has been characterized in news reports as…

Not that I’ve ever been able to…. But this chart seems to reflect what’s going on at the present time. It may change considerably in the near future. But that’s the nature of the Mideast. IMPORTANT UPDATE: “Obama Furious After Vladimir Putin Unfriends Him on Facebook“

Guru huckster Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh makes some excellent points in a hilarious video classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyBap-T4ZDU&feature=youtu.be

Of the two major political parties, one is especially obsessed with persecuting a minority of Americans who engage in an activity which the party considers unhealthy, disgusting, and immoral. No, I’m not talking about anti-gay Republicans. I’m talking about mostly “liberal” Democrats who are waging a holy war against cigarette smokers. The war on tobacco…

Terry McAuliffe seems to be pulling away from Ken Cuccinelli in the Virginia governor’s race, and while I am no fan of McAuliffe, I can’t say I’m surprised. In the new PPP poll, 44 percent support McAuliffe, 37 percent Cuccinelli, 9 percent libertarian Robert Sarvis and 9 percent are undecided. That suggests there is room…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0xpfpciJzBU Thus spake Biden in 2007: …the President has no constitutional authority…to take this nation to war against a county of 70 million people unless we’re attacked or unless there is proof we are about to be attacked. And if he does, if he does, I would move to impeach him. A mere seven years…

Earlier today I was reminded that a very powerful but much disliked city employee cannot be fired, no matter who is elected to the local city council, because the city council simply does not have the power to fire municipal employees. Ordinary taxpaying voters — myself included — like to kid ourselves when we imagine…

Some of these Islamic Sharia terrorist nutjobs are even crazier than I thought: Sharia Authority in Aleppo By the name of God most merciful most gracious Circulation number (12) Thanks to God and prayers and greetings to our master Muhammad and his family and companions, then.. The Sharia Authority in Aleppo has prohibited the killing of…

Here’s just what we need! A well organized attempt to ban E-cigarettes: …the latest push from tobacco eliminationists doesn’t involve actual smoking, which has already been driven out of polite society more thoroughly than Rev. Jeremiah Wright sermons, early David Allan Coe records, and Three’s Company-era gay jokes combined. But it does lay bare the…

The trial of George Zimmerman touched a very raw nerve in this country. That’s because it was the most racially charged event in recent history, and Americans are less comfortable discussing race than ever before. Any discussions involving race are dangerous, especially if they are public, not only because they are emotionally volatile, but because…

I love errors like the one in this caption: “On Aug. 22, 1845, England’s King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses.” Sure, I realize anyone can screw up keystrokes (I do it myself), but to see it in the major media is always funny,…

As I’m one of those people who doesn’t easily fit into most categories, I’m always intrigued by the various political litmus tests that float around, and today I found a new one. While the home page called it the “Social Values Test,” my results — described as “Political Values” — follow: Radicalism        58.25 Socialism          12.5…

I saw an odd phrase today in a missive calling for attacks upon the “hetero-cis-patriarchy.” The meaning of the words “hetero” and “patriarchy” I understand. But “cis”? And a hyphenated cis? That was a new one for me, so I googled. Sure enough, there is such a word, and while it seems to be recently…

A lot of people are talking about the murder of an Australian baseball player by three feral teens in Oklahoma. [Chancey Luna, 16 ], the alleged shooter of a .22 calibre revolver, and Edwards, an alleged passenger in the Focus, were both charged with first-degree murder and face life in prison without parole if convicted. They…