ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

She was a good woman, a good person. She was the salt of the earth and one of those whose voice was never heard. She honored her father an...

The mainstream media has recently woken up to the existence of blogs and so have many corporations. The business now is to decide where to ...

This website is really fun! You are going to get hooked, I predict. The text is in German, but it's pretty easy to figure out where t...

I was reading today about the scattered nature of the progressive resistance in politics. The wingnuts speak in one voice, including the bl...

I get lots of nice e-mails from people. I love them! Even the ones which tell me that I have been signed up for the chatgroup called reall...

Wall Street  This is a joke on two things: the idea that spiders created the world and Wall Street. If you click on the picture you can see...

The proposed bill has passed the Senate as expected. For reasons why it should not have done so see my post here . Fifty-five Republicans...

In the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh parents who have girls will get money from the government: Families having a single girl child in the...

Via Atrios, we learn that certain of our elected representatives are two-faced about porn. On the one hand, they preach against it, but th...

Action of the Day Last night at Eschaton, Atrios explained that Delegate John Cosgrove (R) from the Virginia legislature was on television c...

I haven't had one of these for a long time. T his site will make you feel better. Or totally annoyed. Either way, it's something ...

Why do we need to change the federal laws* that cover bankruptcy? There are two theories about this: The first one says that Americans are...

A new survey tells us what Americans would like to see the federal government spend its money on: The American people would like to signifi...

Biden voted with the wingnuts. Guess why? Could it be because his major political contributor is a credit card company? Priceless.

This is a new report (a pdf file) by Nancy Pelosi and others. Representative Louise Slaughter of New York said this at a press conference t...

Women still can't vote : Several hundred Kuwaiti women demanded support for women's rights outside Kuwait's parliament while the...

I'm late with this topic because I started studying it late (thanks to Kathy Geier for getting me off my butt at all), and the Senate is...

Today's Action comes from Greenpeace. Go to the Greenpeace's " target="_blank" ;website and send an e-mail to your ...

Some there have seen the light, joined the angels or drank the reality brew (water?). Or at least James Baker seems to acknowledge that Mot...

The new U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and the United Nations. Nothing new with this plot, the wingnuts have been doing this for quite a few d...