Author: Eric Scheie

While  I mentioned her in a blog post, the only thing I have read about Green Party candidate Jill Stein were a few other than than mainstream news report about her arrest outside the latest Romney-Obama debate. …Stein and Honkala were held for eight hours, handcuffed to chairs. Regardless of what you think of the…

In last night’s debate post, I opined that Candy Crowley “looks like a malevolent female version of Jobba the Hut.” At least one commenter did not like it, so today I feel obligated to apologize. First off, I should never have said that Candy looks like “Jobba the Hut.” As even the most simple-minded SciFi…

Tonight’s debate is a big deal. Obama is said to be ready to get nasty, and he will focus on women. Do I have to watch? Can’t I just skip it? I guess I’ll just have to see. MORE: Candy Crowley (who looks like a malevolent female version of Jobba the Hut) is doing all…

I don’t know how many readers will remember Harry Truman (who left office before I was born), but one of the things I liked about him was a slogan he popularized about taking responsibility for things that went on. “The buck stops here.” There is something refreshing about that point of view.  By today’s standards,…

I’ve complained in this blog about the damned EPA till I’m blue in the face. Amazingly, my complaints have not have much impact, as the agency continues its unconstitutional practices willy-nilly. So all I can do is analyze. The latest outrage is not new, but I hadn’t heard about it until I stumbled across it…

Quick question. Have you ever joined a group that you did not join? Silly as it may sound to pose the above question, it happens all the time. On Facebook. People with zero affiliations with — or even knowledge of — particular groups are publicly made members of them without their consent. All it takes…

As there is no limit to the number of willfully gullible people who are looking for things that confirm what they want to believe, I expect that false flag operations like the guy photographed wearing a racist “pro-Romney” T-shirt will appear from nowhere to become ubiquitous in the very near future. Clue #1: Wearing a “Romney/Ryan” sticker…

I think it’s kind of cool that a band I loved as a child is still going strong enough that they can crank out a decent tune. I refer to the Rolling Stones’ latest release, “Doom and Gloom.” Here’s the video (one of them, anyway): Bear in mind that these are being pulled off Youtube right…

During last night’s “debate” (a word I use reservedly), the topic of abortion was brought up by the “moderator” (a word I also use reservedly).  While I don’t share the RTL position for reasons I have discussed many times over the years, I don’t think this is a major federal issue, nor should it loom…

Wow. The Biden Ryan debate starts in five minutes, and according to this report, the Democrats are resting their hopes on Biden. I would not want to be resting my hopes on Joe Biden, but I sure am curious to see what happens. My hope does not rest on anyone, but it would nice to…

Amanda Marcotte seems to think that Christianity is immoral because, well, according to her, some Republicans think women who have been raped should not be forced to carry to term babies fathered by their rapists: Any religion that teaches that women are obligated to let any random man who wishes forcibly impregnate them is an…

I recently heard about a technology which strikes me as very odd. Wooden sewer pipes.  The idea sounds almost laughable, but as a friend who sells real estate told me recently, there are a number of homes with these pipes, and when they are found during inspections, all hell breaks looks and the price of…

Aren’t special privileges a wonderful thing? HOUSTON (CBS HOUSTON) – A wheelchair request can put you at the front of a long airport line. Or, at least, that’s the angle some fully-abled passengers are using to cut through the winding queues at airport security checkpoints, the New York Times reported. According to the 1986 Air…

This headlinekind of renews my faith. In, um democracy or whatever it’s called these days in places like Venezuela. La consultora Varianza otorga una victoria al líder opositor por un 51,3% frente al 48,06 de Chávez. El cierre de los colegios se produjo una hora después de la estipulada Which means that wannabe permanent dictator…

While I can never speak for anyone else, I very much enjoyed Camille Paglia’s recent observations about art: The art world, like humanities faculties, suffers from a monolithic political orthodoxy—an upper-middle-class liberalism far from the fiery antiestablishment leftism of the 1960s. (I am speaking as a libertarian Democrat who voted for Barack Obama in 2008.)…

The above is a monstrously Orwellian slogan I keep hearing. Meaning what, exactly? Give back what? And to whom? Did someone steal something from someone? If so, they should definitely give it back. Anyone taking something that did not belong to him has an obligation to give it back. But if what someone has is…

I think it’s a shame to see this sort of thing happening in the United States of America: CHICAGO (CBS) — The President of the South Suburban Branch of the NAACP alleges a director of the re-election campaign of Barack Obama has threatened and intimidated him because he doesn’t support the president. Such thuggish behavior…

A friend just sent me a link to the report that AARP has asked President Obama not to mention them again. This is, of course, good news to anyone who does not want Obama to have a second term. BUT- As I keep opining to anyone who will listen, right now is no time to…

As I sit here waiting for the presidential debate to start, I have a couple of questions. 1. Why is the presidential debate is being held on the Obamas’ 20th wedding anniversary? Coincidence? Or is the idea to give him an added sympathy edge? 2. And why should a presidential campaign speech be allowed to…

Somewhat to my consternation, I learned that it takes balls to live a shorter life. Again and again in the animal world, males have shorter lifespans than females, an effect scientists attribute in part to the deleterious effects of testosterone. Now researchers who looked at historical records of Korean eunuchs castrated during boyhood found that…