ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

If I accidentally swallow a fly in a glass of water, am I still a vegetarian?

The Little Red Riot-Helmet Once upon a time in a country far away lived a little boy called Georgie. He lived in a large, beautiful ho...

Caitlin Flanagan is a new staff writer for the fabled New Yorker magazine. I have already written about her extensively, and those of you...

They are a lot of fun and only get cumbersome when other people believe in them. This is a good time for some new, juicy conspiracy theor...

This is a self-indulgent post that nobody else will find interesting. That's the nice thing about owning a blog, no editor can come i...

Playing a pundit, again. This time I'm a caustic, male-bashing feminazi goddess. I always wanted to be caustic; I'm imagining wa...

Believe it or not, this is possible in Sweden : From Friday, June 4, amorous couples can call the telephone number 696969 and a white v...

The New York Times has been duped by one , according to Daniel Okrent, the Times ombudsman (a Swedish word?). The campaigners were the P...

To write or not to write, that is the question, especially in deciding on the appropriate style for blogging. I still haven't gotten ...

I stole this post from Trish Wilson's blog. It's an oldie but a goodie, and well worth remembering, especially so close to Memori...

According to Lord Tebbit of Britain's House of Lords: A high ranking Conservative member of the House of Lords says that the push f...

Or blog dogging. Hello, this is Henrietta the Hound, the smarter of the two dogs at the Snakepit Inc.. All the others are asleep right n...

People are too fat. They cost the health care system far too much. Smokers are evil. Their health care shouldn't be covered. Pregn...

I need to laugh a little. I think we all do. So what good jokes have you heard recently? Use the comments to tell us. Here are a few...

This one is in Vanity Fair, the current number, page 105. The picture shows a very early morning scene, the sun is just reaching its firs...

This coleslaw is not edible, which is probably a good thing as I am a very bad cook. Rather, it is bits and pieces from various articles,...

As we have all heard from our dearly beloved John Ashcroft, the terrorists are already here, among our midst, plotting to cause widespread...

An interesting snippet of news: Women legislators in California staged a protest on Monday over remarks that it was "sinful"...

Here we go again. Instapundit notes the following in his blog: Those convinced that liberals make up a disproportionate share of new...

These are the reactions of people from various parts of the U.S. to Bush's Monday night speech. From a suburb of Boston, Massachuse...