ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Here's an interesting legal case for your consideration: A 30-year old man, one John Smith, had a son with incurable leukemia. Medic...

Some funny things end up stranded in my e-mail box. It's most likely a variation of this resume (thanks to Scout for the information). ...

There's a lot to be said for bad poetry, especially as it's the only type I create. The poetry market suffers from a terrible imbal...

There are some things that I can't write about, not really; yet I can't stay quiet about them either. Blogs are not the places to di...

I stole this quote from corrente : "[KERRY:]George Bush is running on the same old Republican tactics of fear — and they're alre...

Another Rara Avis, I'm afraid. This time I have dared to raise my gaze upwards, far far into the upper stratospheres. There, in his sol...

Today is the International Women's Day, though you might not notice it very much if you live in the United States. If I recall correctl...

This is a true story. A couple I know own a summerhouse with an old-fashioned outhouse. Every spring they clean out the base of the outhou...

The Bush administration is very keen on sexual abstinence, but it really has very few tools to fight the war against demon sexuality. I hav...

So much to choose from as usual. You could begin by finding out some of the things that the Bush administration has been working on: T.Rex...

Public schools are about to get broad new freedom to teach blacks and whites separately, perhaps the biggest shakeup to integrated classroom...

David Brooks, the New York Times conservative columnist with the eager-little-boy face, wrote an opinion column on poverty some weeks ago. ...

There are some things that I can't write about, not really; yet I can't stay quiet about them either. Blogs are not the places to d...

It's very hard to be a good mother. In fact, it's impossible, because a good mother is defined as some sort of an unattainable comb...

This pearl is from Matt Drudge, the fair and balanced newsprovider to the so-called liberal mainstream: Democrat frontrunner John Kerry ...

Happy Leap Year's Day! An old tradition, recorded in law in Scotland and many other European countries decreed that in leap years, and ...

We are not exactly the flavor of the month in most countries abroad. In fact, we haven't been that popular for a long time, but recently...

What do these two have in common? Probably nothing except for the fact that they will both perform in this post, one about the wonders of p...

The following are my musings on recent political events here, from the AWOL debate about the president to the proposal of a constitutional a...

I now have trackback, so ping to your heart's content. The other blog maintenance is of the sort that most of my housekeeping tasks ten...