Author: Eric Scheie

They say that looking at cute animal pictures at work will improve one’s day, so I should probably apologize in advance for this post. But hey, at least this is the evening and not the morning, so hopefully lost productivity will not be the result. In what I had thought was intended to pass as serious…

The phenomenon of a new generation of children who have been raised by “helicopter parents” never fails to amaze me. I was recently told — to my astonishment (and I’m getting harder and harder to astonish) that parents are now actually accompanying their kids to job interviews. At first I thought this was sick satire…

In New York, a new censorship standard has been announced. The following ads are not to be allowed: The advertisement, or any information contained in it, is directly adverse to the commercial or administrative interests of the MTA or is harmful to the morale of MTA employees or contains material the display of which the…

Glenn Reynolds linked a post from Allahpundit which highlights what I think is a little confusion about the First Amendment. Fox News did a poll: Two weeks after the killing of a U.S. ambassador in Libya — an attack the Obama administration blamed in part on an online video mocking the prophet Muhammad — a majority of…

No, this post is not evidence that Classical Values has finally been completely taken over by hackers. It’s just that a friend emailed me the following link about this free phone offer courtesy of Barack Obama, and I thought I should share it with my readers: All I say say is Wow. And like, where…

In a Wall Street Journal Op Ed about ROTC, I found a marvelous statement which I think says a lot about many of those who call themselves “educators”: In February 2011, a group of 72 Columbia and Barnard faculty members wrote: “The militarization of the campus represented by ROTC’s uniformed presence is at odds with…

I have just learned that the 2012 election promises to be a repeat of the 2000 election, because of a serious Murphy’s Law type mess that astrologers call Mercury retrograde: …consider the Bush-Gore 2000 American presidential election in Florida. Now there’s a classic colossal screw-up, and we can point our finger directly at Mercury retrograde.…

I am just tickled pink that Mahmoud “‘Israel-will-be-eliminated“ Ahmadinejad is all set to help educate the Occupy Wall Streeters: Ahmadinejad is also set to meet American university students, artists, intellectuals and elites, including Occupy Wall Street anti-capitalist protestors, despite the ongoing efforts made by the pro-Zionist lobbies to prevent direct link between American people and…

Here’s an unwholesome mouthful of a headline if ever there was one. “ Obama’s ‘Food Cops’ Take Over School Cafeterias” In the name of protecting us from ourselves, the federal government is getting more and more involved in what we eat. Some people derisively call them the “food cops” but the threat to our historic freedom…

Ever since I was a kid, I have been told to shut up. I’m used to it. What I have enjoyed about blogging is that while people can tell me to shut up, no one can actually shut me up. Well, on occasion, maybe they can. A strange thing happened on the way to the…

In a Reuters article speculating over whether the terrorists who attacked the U.S. consulate had “inside help” (a phrase striking me as a possible redundancy), I read about a man thought to be heavily involved. One group that has been linked to the attack is Ansar al Sharia, or Supporters of Sharia. U.S. officials acknowledged…

While I already knew that G. Gordon Liddy was retiring (I listened to his last show), it was nice to see that Drudge linked a story about it. Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy, who left prison for a successful career as a conservative radio commentator, is retiring after 20 years and revealing two of the…

Austin Bay said something with which I could not possibly agree more: The Benghazi attack wasn’t an act of sudden rage, an escalating protest kindled by a sacrilegious video. It was a calculated act of war conducted on a date, 9/11, with political significance and symbolic power. Via Glenn Reynolds, who also links this from…

A lot of people I know complain about how difficult it is to change the minds of people who disagree with them, and they can get bogged down in logical arguments, the meaning of truth, moral debates, and what-not. What I have noticed particularly among Republicans and conservatives is that they tend to forget that…

Considering our government’s craven record of appeasement and shocking disregard of the First Amendment, it should surprise no one that demands are now being made that the United States criminalize blasphemy or else lose our consulates. Whether that is a threat or a promise, who knows? But here’s the best part: One of the participants of…

Reading this made me not sure whether to laugh or cry: Knowing her legal position was unsound, and that traditional forms of law could not constitutionally be used to suppress critical examination of religion, Secretary Clinton further explained the administration’s commitment “to use some old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming, so that people don’t…

Fouad Ajami (senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution) looks at a vexing question:Why is the Muslim world so easily offended? It is never hard to assemble a crowd of young protesters in the teeming cities of the Muslim world. American embassies and consulates are magnets for the disgruntled. It is inside those fortresses, the gullible…

First came the apologies. And now comes the censorship: Obama administration officials said Thursday that they have asked YouTube to review the video [that reportedly set off the embassy attacks] and determine whether it violates the site’s terms of service, according to people close to the situation but not authorized to comment. I agree 200% with…

This looks really bad. It appears that once again, the U.S. was warned, and did nothing: The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent can reveal. American officials believe the attack was planned, but…

A few months ago, I bought a 750 GB hard drive on Craigslist from a total stranger for five bucks. He met me on a public street and handed it to me.  I took it home and (no surprise) it didn’t work. What the hell. But I noticed that a ferrite-core inductor on the PCB…