Author: Eric Scheie

Finally, some good news! At least, a rumor of good news, which is the next best thing. It appears that my favorite beer — Yuengling — might just be inching closer to Michigan. Of all the things I miss about Pennsylvania, Yuengling is at the top of the list. For reasons that are not entirely…

I don’t know whether to title this post “Why I am Not a  Conservative” or “Why I Shouldn’t Call Myself a Conservative,” or even “Why I CANNOT Call myself a Conservative,” but Iowa Congressman Steve King (the driving force behind the recent Conservative Principles Conference) has made a strong case that conservatism means social conservativism,…

In a long post in which I was trying to be serious, I discussed (again) Kay Hymowitz’s Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys. During the several discussions […] I kept seeing references to male slobs: “why men don’t marry, why college women get guys showing up in a dirty…

I don’t know whether I should still allow myself to rant on my blog, but earlier today I was driving on a fairly major through street, which is clearly marked “ONE WAY.” Not only does it have the requisite signs posted, but it is so obviously one way that only an absolute idiot would fail…

As I have said before, I sometimes have a problem where it comes to blogging about bad news. This can lead to problems, such as avoiding depressing topics entirely. Or writing about topics some would consider frivolous, like the weather, or comparisons between medical marijuana and radiation tourism.  Another option is to find humor in…

This morning I read about what might be a major new investment opportunity — with opportunities for growth poised to become bigger than Viagra: There is a noticeable aroma wafting around the medical marijuana industry. It’s the smell of money — with a strong hint of entrepreneurial opportunity. Medical marijuana is now a $1.7 billion…

When I wake up in the morning, I tend to look at my clock. Not so much because I’m interested in the time (I have a pretty natural sense of what time it is), but because I want to know the outside temperature. Thanks to this Sharper Image time temperature clock which is still listed…

Via theblogprof, I found a Reason TV report titled “LA Food Police Ban Burger Joints: Is Your City Next?” I find it appalling that the forces of government are attempting to control our diets, but they are. I suspect that they imagine themselves to be on the side of “nature.” You know, natural foods? Eat…

Speaking of things I’ve written about before, Democratic agent provocateur Fred Phelps is hardly at the top of my list of priorities. So when I read about the latest antics of his incestuous cult (a protest at Elizabeth Taylor’s funeral), my reaction was sort of ho-hum. The Supreme Court has said they can do it,…

The news from Japan continues to be awful, and it will get worse: THE number of people confirmed dead or listed as missing in Japan surpassed 25,000 yesterday 12 days after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the country’s northeast coast. There are fears of a much higher toll from the disaster, which flattened entire…

Between the horrific earthquake and the reactor problems in Japan, and the operation against Gadhafi in Libya, the war of attrition in Madison, Wisconsin has been pushed off the front pages. (And off Drudge, off Memeorandum, and off almost everywhere else except gloating left-wing sites.) Shouldn’t that cause a collective sigh of relief? I mean,…

If you thought it was bad that the loony demonic Princess of the right Ann Coulter carried on about the joys of radiation, consider a tidbit from today’s news. George Monbiot, environmental wacko and leftist idiot extraordinaire, has come out in favor of nuclear power: Support for nuclear power has fallen among the British public…

Am I alone in thinking that the news these days just plain sucks? Seriously, I find myself wanting to take a break — not so much from blogging, but from having to read, subject myself to, and react to the relentless onslaught of bad news. It is dreadfully depressing, and I am not alone in…

Much to my surprise, I just learned that rooftop solar is much more dangerous than Chernobyl. Here are the stats: Comparing deaths/TWh for all energy sources Coal – China                       278Coal – USA                         15Oil                                36  (36% of world energy)Natural Gas                         4  (21% of world energy)Biofuel/Biomass                    12Peat                               12Solar (rooftop)                     0.44 (less than 0.1% of world energy)Wind                                0.15…

It has been officially Spring since 7:21 p.m. EST. It was still winter yesterday when much to my surprise I discovered that the first flower had already defied the winter and poked its way out through the exhausted soil in my yard: Coco is equally as sick of the winter. Here’s how she looked earlier…

Notwithstanding my concerns about Yusuf Qaradawi, I think Barack Obama has finally gotten around to doing the right thing in Libya. Sure, it might very well be that he’s doing the right thing for entirely the wrong reasons, but since when has a little thing like irony stood in the way of foreign policy? As…

Glenn’s link to this discussion of a New York Times assessment of Holocaust-denying Islamist Yasir Qadhi (“the new face of ‘moderate’ American Islam”) just stuck in my craw yesterday. Not just because Yasir Qadhi is anything but a moderate, but because of the pattern it represents. The New York Times has pattern of whitewashing radical…

While I continue to have reservations about inviting the government into people’s private lives, more Americans than ever are supporting same sex marriage — to the point where today’s headline proclaims a “milestone.” More Than Half of Americans Say Gay Marriage Should Be Legal More than half of Americans say it should be legal for…

This is sickening. Some cowardly anonymous hard core Commies (of course they would deny that’s what they are, and they would doubtless call me a “red baiter” for calling them Communists) have threatened Ann Althouse for courageously daring to cover and criticize the ongoing occupation of the State Capitol. Via Glenn Reynolds, who does not…

Take a look at this headline (found at Drudge) and the first two paragraphs of the piece: ‘Biblical Exodus’ From Africa Feeds Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric… As boats carrying hundreds of Africans set sail for a better life in Europe, they were met on Italy’s Lampedusa island with two words by a 5-foot, 8-inch blonde: go away.…