Author: Eric Scheie

A heart transplant surgeon I am not. And, pain in the ass as it was, I have finally finished the final sutures on a difficult hard drive transplant. My main computer (a Pentium 4 on a Dell Optiplex 5100 motherboard which won’t even accept a Pentium D) has become so out of date that I…

Here’s a tactic I hadn’t heard about before but which doesn’t surprise me. SWATting is a particularly dangerous hoax in which a caller, generally a computer hacker, calls a police department to report a shooting at the home of his enemy. The caller will place this call to the police department’s business line, using Skype…

Writer Michael Fumento explains why he is “breaking with the extreme right.” The right didn’t create this reservoir of fear, anger and hate. But it has both tapped into it and roiled it. Indeed, the right-wing mass hysteria is what sociologists call a “moral panic.” It occurs when a society is undergoing a wrenching transformation.…

Coco has a brand new bone. It’s made of aluminum, so she can’t eat it, but I hope she appreciates it, as I spent all day working on it, and finally cut it out with a shape cutter. You think I’m kidding? Check out my third reworked drawing: And after that I had to enter…

What would make a snake try to swallow a frog far too large? And what would make the frog commandeer the snake when only its head was sticking out from the snakes mouth? Global warming? I don’t think so, although that seems to be the pat answer these days for any natural (meaning non-human…) occurrence in any…

I’ve just been reading about a brilliant con artist, serial litigant, and famous bomber who strikes me as a textbook example of a pure psychopath, and as typifies such types, there are too many details for me to process at this late hour. That there are people like this is not surprising. What I’d like to know…

There’s an old saying that you are what you eat. How true that is, I don’t know. But earlier tonight, I enjoyed a salad tossed with lovely wooden salad tossing forks, and while this wouldn’t have been a big deal by itself, something odd happened. I put the salad bowl and the salad tossers into…

This is amazing. In a linked video, an obviously incompetent teacher bellows “You will not disrespect the president of the United States in this class!” after students asked questions about Obama’s admission that he bullied a girl in high school in response to the teacher bringing up what she called a “fact of the day” —…

I have never believed that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, and have written countless posts to that effect. But what I find even more unbelievable than the unsubstantiated assertion that Obama was born in Kenya is that the same assertion appears either to have been made by Barack Obama himself or at least endorsed by him.…

Speaking of strait-laced puritans, I hate the way leftists complain about “invasive species.” It reminds me of the DAR type womyn who once judged people not by the content of their character, but by when their ancestors came to America. Then the left turned around and imitatively trumped that by claiming that “native” Americans had…

Yes, as Simon points out, I have been offline, although this morning I found a few seconds to use the Wifi here at the Cobo Center, where I am a delegate to the Michigan Republican Convention. I had barely time to sleep, and I may have more later.  I just watched Michigan Governor Snyder and…

While it was in the general context of the George Zimmerman case,  Ann Althouse said something about the left that is so true: It’s really astounding how prissy lefties have become over the years. I remember when folk of the left-wing persuasion loved to delve into Freudian analysis. Now, they’re so strait-laced about sex. They…

Last night I was asked by a very aggressive activist to sign a petition to recall Michigan Governor Rick Snyder. I said “NO” and she glared at me in disappointment, disbelief and what I would even call shock (or at least feigned shock). I suspect she believed that anyone patronizing that particular bar would be…

This country may have gone crazy, but it seems I got needlessly worked up about Andrew Sullivan’s Newsweek cover. Barack Obama may be many things, but he is not the first gay president. I’d say I stand corrected, except I never said he was.

To my utter shock, surprise and awe, I just learned from the New York Times that politics just might have been behind President Obama’s sudden turnaround on gay marriage. (Gasp!) And naturally, pundits on both “sides” of this distraction will be analyzing it in terms of whether people support or oppose gay marriage. In my…

This is incredibly, um… “Cute” is the only word I can think of that’s alliterative enough to go with “cool.” 1966 Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown nostalgia is obviously both. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pQqYG9YQW4 Enjoy! (I’m all nerves, and they do break down, have or lose.) MORE: Even if old Stones aren’t your thing, please don’t miss the way bass…

Now here’s a hot new conspiracy theory: Washington, DC – The Obama agents, through the DHS and other assorted colluders, are plotting a major ‘Reichstag’ event to generate racial riots and produce the justification for martial law, delaying the November 2012 elections, possibly indefinitely, a DHS whistleblower informed the Canada Free Press on Tuesday. The…

I’ve been playing around with Linux tonight and I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a soon-to-be retired Pentium D computer which cannot be upgraded. It works dazzlingly well, and this is all so much faster than Windows that it breathes new life into a computer that was getting ready for recycling or landfill (or…

The reason Coco looks that way is because Sarah links an article which reminded her that online spontaneity can not only have consequences, but the consequences can be permanent. And permanent spontaneity (a complete contradiction) sucks! After all, she is her master’s watchdog. GRIM THOUGHT: What if Facebook — because of the sheer numbers, and because…

I am a survivor of bullying! I was bullied beginning as early as when I was two year old, as I have discussed repeatedly. Eventually I learned to kick their asses or “make friends” with them as circumstances warranted (sometimes to the detriment of some of their victims). When you’re a kid (especially the smallest…