ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Warning: This post is not comfortable to read . In Iran, a young woman or a teenaged girl has been publibly hanged for adultery. The ...

that I'm a sunny, cheerful goddess most of the time. I don't especially enjoy reminding my readers so often about the unfairness, cr...

I read this post at Eschaton this morning and the commentary to the post, and it led me to World O'Crap's column which proposes a ...

The Bush administration tried to sneak this out while everybody is on vacation and before the Republican convention meets in New York. Na...

If you haven't received this as an e-mail yet, here's a chance to fill the hole in your liberal education: REPUBLICAN NATIONAL ...

According to today's news : Massachusetts Institute of Technology chose Yale University Provost Susan Hockfield as its new president,...

Unfogged links to my previous post about women beach volleyball players and sets me right: Folks, the men wear shorts because they'...

According to mediabistro.com (via Atrios ) the O'Reilly Factor had 2,200,000 viewers last Tuesday. I find this fascinating. Are all...

Lest we forget what war is finally all about, you can read this link . Warning: It's not a fun one. Thanks to Carlton Yates for the ...

Perhaps in more ways than the obvious one: A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed against Costco Wholesale Corporation for bias ag...

This is Orcinus on today's media: One of the more annoying tendencies of the mainstream press in recent years is the way it tries ...

This title should prove very popular! It doesn't have very much to do with the topic of this post (if it has one), but it is true tha...

An unnecessary event if there ever was one, or so I think. So remember that. But I watched some matches in it and even liked the athleti...

I stubbornly keep calling them that, but mostly they're called the reverse. Anyhow, if you are interested in the whole sordid debacle...

This is China's new policy program trying to combat the preference for boys which has led to all sorts of horrors as well as over thir...

The next post is an experiment that probably failed. I tested it on some people and they didn't get it. It's about a bee that fl...

"Oh man, you should've been there to understand" I said while I reached for the third ice-cold beer of the night. "It ...

Check out this link for children's Halloween costumes . You can now get ten dollars off for dressing your little girl as a ho and y...

This just in: Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry asked the Federal Election Commission on Friday to force Republican critics ...

I can't. At least I can't drive and think. I've been on the road for three days, and the only act of thinking I have been ca...