ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I didn't want to write another feminist rant, but what can you do when the world offers you a topic like this on a salver? The first ...

Or a few of them. I did a tour of this odd land tonight, and decided to pick one topic likely to be on all conservative political blogs t...

About honor killings : A young woman from the Sindh Province of Pakistan has appealed to Pakistan's President Musharraf for protectio...

You don't, actually. Snake eggs are soft and look more like pebbles or shopping bags than bird eggs. Baby snakes are born with a sp...

I have not written much about the war and occupation of Iraq, and I'm not going to begin now, but I'd like to explain (if only to ...

My muse has gone cavorting elsewhere. He got some new tattoos, that's why. But this leaves me without anything interesting to write ...

I used a sleepless night in deep research of the blogoland area that is called 'Comments'. Quite a few blogs have them, mine includ...

President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan is a man of some astonishing ideas : In a televised address at an agricultural academy, N...

Women's Enews has an interesting article about marriage and highly educated women. Traditionally, more educated women were less likel...

About Bush's job approval . It has dropped to 49%, its lowest level in 2004. The 'strongly disapprove' category beats the ...

That importing cheaper drugs from Canada and other countries would be unsafe, would lower incentives to market generic drugs, and would in...

I am worried that I put my readers off by being so divine and perfect. Just to reassure you that my life isn't all roses and nectar, ...

Thanks to Atrios , I have finally met Kathleen Parker . She's a right-wing journalist and columnist, and must be a good one. After...

Take this test at World O'Crap, and find out! I am 1/3 Ben Shapiro, 1/3 Jonah Goldberg and 1/3 Ann Coulter. I think the test needs som...

I just waved goodbye to her! She threw some kisses back and disappeared in a puff of dark cloud. Then I collapsed. But it was a good ...

Welcome to the United States of America! A program requiring foreigners to be fingerprinted and photographed before entering the Unite...

While walking down the street one day, a Republican head of state is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is...

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. But what about her feet? Wh...

Sometimes it pays to rummage in old files: I found this pearl developed by an oyster also known as Charles Krauthammer. It was in a revi...

I refuse to write about the 9/11 commission scandal, about what the Bush administration knew or did not know, about who lies and why. The...