Author: Eric Scheie

As the country recoils in horror over last night’s murderous ISIS attack on a Florida gay bar, the president has spoken. He described the attack as an act of terror, an act of hate, and of course blamed guns. Not a word about the shooter’s admitted religious motivation. That’s because the shootings had nothing to…

As I keep saying, I’d vote for anyone but Hillary. I took another one of these online tests, which makes that abundantly clear. She’s dead last. Trump’s a brilliant Machiavellian, and I like the way he shits on the left’s sacred cows, but I worry that he’s a big government Republican.

As seen on a wall in Berkeley: The sentiment around here is that there is a choice. The world’s only reliable newspaper would agree! One of these days I really ought to give some serious thought to taking the election seriously. I mean, sure, I will vote for anyone but Hillary, but I’d do it in…

Remember. And let their sacrifices not be in vain. We are still in debt.

Yes, aluminum foil has its uses: The legal debate over whether police need a warrant to search a suspect’s cellphone is more than just raging on — it’s headed to the Supreme Court. But even if the nation’s highest court decides a warrant is needed, the authorities could still block you from remote-wiping your phone…

A writer for SFGATE is upset over the fact that Haagen Dazs ice cream is catering (via tongue-in-cheek humor, obviously) to people who have to write computer code for a living. She accuses the advertisers of (gasp!) pandering: Haagen Dazs takes pandering to the next level with awful tech-themed BART ads When marketing meets Silicon…

I just found a fascinating statistic which I’m still scrambling to comprehend: Nearly 40 percent of the Bernie backers say they’ll vote for Trump even if he’s running against Sanders. Well, even though it sounds counterintuitive, there is more political overlap between Trump and Sanders than any of the other candidates. Perhaps they could pair…

In case you haven’t realized it, I’m not into this election. It is the most depressing election cycle I have seen in my life. I have zero enthusiasm. (Hence the lack of posts.) As I’ve said several times, though, I’m anti-Hillary to the max. I would vote for Barack Obama over Hillary. Bernie Sanders over…

Cruz wants to know. TED CRUZ: Donald said on television this morning that, gosh, he thought men should be able to go into the girls’ bathroom if they want to. … Let me ask you. Have we gone stark raving nuts? I don’t know. (Whether we’ve gone nuts, that is.) I can’t speak for everyone,…

Imagine, some clown making fun of the rules (whatever they are)!  

They never have, and they never will. Hell, if I didn’t care about electability, I’d vote the straight Libertarian ticket. I’d probably be happier.

This sort of Orwellian nonsense is getting downright deranged. […] I decided to raise my cats to be gender neutral. The cats’ lives wouldn’t change, I reasoned, and it would help me learn to use plural pronouns for my friends, neighbors and colleagues who individually go by they, their and them. Even though using they,…

There are a lot of arguments that can be made for or against the unapproved use of scheduled substances. But “academic dishonesty”? That’s a new one. Yet they are making it — in the context of “nonprescription misuse of prescription stimulants.” Big time. (As to why it isn’t called “abuse, don’t ask me.) The implication (that…

Donald Trump says whatever he wants, without regard to consequences. Generally, only artists are allowed such freedom of self expression. (They can erase things, try another color, or scrap it entirely.) Such style has enormous appeal, but traditionally in politics there are negative consequences. What remains to be seen is whether that is changing.    

Here’s yet another typical example of why so many of the little people are so incredibly pissed off. One story among many, yet it’s so poignantly sad it nearly made me cry. As most readers know, the people behind this sort of thing carry such vendettas on and on, and on, with support from big business and both…

It certainly seems that way to many. What I think may really be going on is this: …every once in a while, voters discover they have the power to do something they have never done before; and that discovery itself becomes a significant political force. Sticking it to the powers that be by electing a…

Assuming this report (that George Soros is behind the growing anti-Trump protest movement) is true, I have a simple question. Why does George Soros want to help the Trump campaign? Surely he is intelligent enough to know that these protests are exactly what Trump wants, that they are helping energize his base, and give Trump a…

In case you hadn’t noticed, President Obama has now made it clear what is really at stake in the government’s war against encryption: Speaking at the South by Southwest festival in Texas, Obama said he could not comment on the legal case in which the FBI is trying to force Apple Inc. to allow access to…

Notwithstanding my last flippant post, I do have something good to say about this election: it is going to be interesting. A lot more so than those in recent memory. While digesting what we call “the news,” it has long been my habit to switch back and forth from CNN to Fox, so I can compare…

A conspiracy theorist I am not. However, occasionally I run into one which I find irresistible, and the latest involves speculation that Ted Cruz Is The Zodiac Killer. While there is a facial resemblance between Cruz and police sketches of the suspect, a friend pointed out that this seemed highly unlikely, because the Zodiac Killer’s serial…