ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Did you know what we are trying to do to this country? Wow, we are really terrible people : The RNC also is running radio ads in sever...

Remember my theory about Karl Rove being behind the possible forged documents about George Bush's Guard duty? (Well, ok, I was just o...

Paralympics have just started in Athens with a beautiful opening ceremony. Too bad that we won't see that or any of the many events i...

The flop-flop presidency! This term is due to cornbread on the Eschaton thread, but it deserves to be shouted from the top of the roofs e...

check the news today. Friday is the day when the administration dumps all bad news, hoping that nobody reads them in their hurry to go ou...

The Department of Labor just published a study on the division of domestic chores in U.S. households. The results are what I expected, gi...

This is being planned in Tamil Nadu, India. The reason is that traditional mosques don't allow women to attend the jamaat (citizens...

This bumper sticker was staring me in the face for a few minutes on the road today. It also had a picture of the head of a bald eagle. B...

From CBS: CBS/AP) Congressional Republicans on Wednesday turned the high heat on CBS News, charging that last week's revelations ab...

This is about the possibility that the famous Guard duty memos are forgeries. Yet, as Media Matters points out, the contents of the memos ...

This is an autumn re-run of a story I wrote last spring or early summer. I feel like posting it again. The Little Red Riot-Helmet O...

This is very important: 1. While Bush's stomp speech criticizes Kerry's plans as big-spender ones, his own plans are likely to co...

This would be a good title for the era in which we live right now, but I'm going to use it slightly differently, to talk about all tho...

A good example of the way the wingnuts have taken over what goes for the media these days: On the September 10 edition of his ABC Radio...

Aaron Hawkins, the brilliant writer and careful thinker of Uppity Negro has passed away. We all are poorer now. May you find peace, Aaro...

This is the title of a book by Steven E. Rhoads who seems to be an economist with not very many publications. Some reviewers call it a ...

This might be a new series portraying the culprits of the American ignorance. Or it might not, depending on how lazy I get. But here is...

Hiya, everybody! Hank here, and ready to serve! BWAHAHAA! I sure like politics. It's like chasing them damn critters which look ...

These thoughts bubbled up in my head as I was vacuuming: That the most important issues the Republican party is running on are the war aga...

Atrios links to this article on the 9/11 report, and it is really worth reading through. If you don't have the time for it, here...