ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I'm blogging politics on the American Street today, so all I have left for my own blog is either talking about the gender wage gap or ...

I found a website of Dubya Incidents . Among the many silly stories was one that is a little bit more sinister than silly. It concerns a...

They are beginning to ask for the rewards that they expect from Bush after November 2. I don't believe that they earn any such reward...

The story (no, it's not John Kerry's abdication speech): The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday was still counting t...

The traffic today was worse than in Istanbul, Turkey or Paris, France, so I'm feeling pretty chuffed right now! However, I have had s...

Can you decipher that? Shouldn't be too hard. I have to go out to do some Dangerous Driving this afternoon, but I will be back and b...

It has now appeared in some mainstream newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle . What's interesting about the article in it...

I have been cruising the net in search of discussions about this study, and I realized that it's important to point out a few things: ...

Michael Hout, Laura Mangels, Jennifer Carlson and Rachel Best are the authors of a new study on the Florida presidential elections in 2004...

As usual. I'm beginning to suspect that I have some vampire blood or something. Anyway, a rumor has that the Bush administration p...

Although this is pretty funny, really, even for those of you who don't have my morbid sense of humor. Consider the party of God, the ...

Checks and balances are supposed to be built-in moderators in the American system of government. Right now they have practically no impac...

This is a wonderful website. Click on the gallery and scroll down. Yes, it is a bit amateurish, but you'll be glad you went there, ...

While the fundamentalist Protestants are working like beavers to break down the wall between the state and the church, to let the church f...

You probably know that already. Preposterous! Idiotic conspiracy theories! And Keith Olbermann is attacked and ridiculed for covering t...

of the Blackboxvoting.org fame. She is busy in Florida trying to get a look at the tapes coming from the voting machines. Here is a Demo...

Trolls are the bane of the internet. For those who have not heard this term in this context before, trolls are commenters whose aim is no...

Sometimes I learn more than I ever wanted to know. This is a good example of what I mean: vaginal plastic surgery is on the increase! Th...

First, in Indiana one local election led to switched results after a computer glitch was found: A recently found computer glitch in the...

A U.S. Marine shot and killed a wounded prisoner in a Fallujah mosque, according to a television pool report broadcast Monday. A Marine sp...