ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

It's final examinations time for a lot of students, and I think that we should have examinations for the politicians and the media, to...

This is a pretty interesting one, too. It will tell you where you fall within a two-dimensional graph of left-right and authoritarian-lib...

Blogs are wonderful things to have, but sometimes I wonder what they're good for. Like today. It's a beautiful day, and here I...

He is the new archbishop of the Catholics in Boston. He was picked for the job after all the sexual molestation trouble the church had ha...

Hail, all fellow canines! This is Henrietta the Hound, the intelligent feline in this madhouse. The other one hardly bears mentioning am...

As my computer was down I had time to engage in that antiquated activity: reading stuff on paper pages. I re-read the Onion satire from ...

I'm having it. Plus tax trouble. Plus the telephone lines to Snakepit Inc. are down. If you call the repair number, you get connect...

How do you write a letter to someone who doesn't want to read it? Doesn't want to read it not because you are an enemy, a nuisa...

This has to do with Christian traditions. The Holy Thursday foot-washing ritual commemorates the biblical story of Jesus washing his disc...

I swear. Once you've read this post you can go out and radiate the dangerously sexy aura of someone who knows about economic acrony...

In other words, something light and frothy is called for. Perhaps interior decoration? Tassels, bows and dried flower arrangements? I h...

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...