Author: Eric Scheie

“Heroin Just Killed My Baby” So says a grieving mother. Heroin addiction has ruined our family. The day my 15-year-old son, Brendan, took his first hit, he changed my life. Yes, not just his, but mine too. And not just mine, everyone who loved him. My daughter, Haley, found him unresponsive. She is 12 and…

At the risk of sounding like an anarchist, it has long struck me that respect for authority and contempt for authority are a hair apart. This is especially true in the election season, as these things depend entirely on whose “side” (a term I use reluctantly) one is on. The funny thing is that when…

There’s been a recent attempt to rebadge the ongoing war against encryption as a war on terrorism, but few people realize that there’s a backlog of cases in which prosecutors are drooling over access to encrypted iPhones. [Manhattan district attorney Cyrus ] Vance told Rose he had 175 iPhones waiting for the outcome of this case.…

According to Gloria Steinem, the boys are with Bernie Sanders. Which, in the mind of this elderly feminist scold, means that girls who claim to be supporting Bernie Sanders are actually only after the boys. Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has drawn the wrath of the Twitterverse for suggesting that young women supporting Bernie Sanders’ presidential…

I’ve been trying to watch tonight’s Iowa election results by switching back and forth from Fox to CNN, and I cannot help notice that CNN is broadcasting Hillary’s speech while Fox is broadcasting Cruz’s. (Hillary has the good sense to have Bill standing behind her, while Cruz has the bad sense to have his loony tune…

A couple was late arriving home, so their 11 year old boy waited for them and entertained himself playing in the family’s yard. This might sound like an unremarkable story, except the cops were called by some sicko busybody neighbor (some people get their jollies siccing the authorities on others), and the result? Felony charges…

Just as a lack of snow is proof of Global Warming, so is a record setting blizzard! No really. I’d be willing to bet that seemingly “normal” weather is also caused by Global Warming. You can’t be too careful!

Or at least, has Hillary selected her running mate already? I saw this professional looking sticker today and wondered whether I missed something in the news. (No, that is not the actual license plate on the car.) I’m letting Coco have the last laugh on this. UPDATE: Many thanks to Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit for the…

Watching tonight’s debate, I do not want this person to be president. I’d rather have any of the Republican candidates. I’d rather have Bernie Sanders. In fact, as I said many times in 2008, I’d rather have Barack Obama. If given the choice between voting for an Obama third term and a Hillary Clinton first…

At least, that’s what he said: Authorities say a Philadelphia police officer is recovering after he was shot several times during an ambush late Thursday night in West Philadelphia. Philadelphia police commissioner Richard Ross says the officer was sitting in his patrol car around 11:30 p.m. at 60th and Spruce Streets when a gunman fired 11 shots…

Guns kill people. Isn’t it obvious? President Obama shed tears on Tuesday as he called for new gun safety measures, and some critics perceived weakness or wimpishness. Really? On the contrary, we should all be in tears that 225,000 Americans have already died of gun violence in his seven years in office. The shame is…

Now. Then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM-lEhhsLQw

At the rate things are going, I’ll be arrested for being a “drop-off rider”…

I think so. Jimmy Carter loses his religion and Muslim women lose the veil. AFTERTHOUGHT: I am not making a moral equivalency argument about the respective religions, mind you. Or the people involved. The Muslim women who have taken a stand against the veil are infinitely braver than Jimmy Carter. (I realize that any regular reader over…

For what it’s worth, the eloquent George Will lets Trump have it good and hard (anyone remember when conservatives hated moral equivalency arguments?): by his embrace of Putin, and by postulating a slanderous moral equivalence — Putin kills journalists, the United States kills terrorists, what’s the big deal, or the difference? — Trump has forced conservatives to…

Those who think penetration is worse than envelopment — and that only penetration can be rape — should read this: This is one of the few cases where we have an actually good idea of what happened the night in question. Doe accompanied the accuser (who was Doe’s girlfriend’s roommate) to her dorm room. The…

With Donald Trump now calling for censorship of the Internet, I thought an amusing video I found recently was not only amusing, but absolutely in order.

Quick question. Is a Zombie Jesus more offensive than a Zombie Muhammad? I mean, they are probably both considered offensive depending on whom you talk to. But it seems as if the New York Times is more willing to belittle religious objections to the Zombie Jesus than they would be to belittle objections to the…