ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I blog on the American Street on Saturdays. Today's topics include G. Gordon Liddy and female orgasms, though pretty obviously not in ...

The Concerned Women of America is a group of anti-feminists, a little like the Independent Women's Forum except that the latter group wo...

Kelly the Aussie This is an extra dogblogging treat for you, because there aren't enough of them in this Friday's blogosphere. Kell...

Snakelet This is a tiny embroidery. I might start using it as an icon for this blog. I think of it as the tiny snake who could!

The Salon has a long article about Bush's unpopularity. It even asks the question whether Bush will pull the Republican party down wi...

Jdt told me about this post on First Draft . It links to a Denver Post article with some mind-boggling things in it: Imagine two rape vic...

"Bush" is my shorthand term for the language that our president uses. It takes some translating and decoding into plain English. ...

The title refers to a series of posts* on Eschaton about what the New York Times wingnut columnist David Brooks calls the mainstream Americ...

Today's Action Comes from Act for Change: Whether you have taken action once, twice or many times before, it's crucial that you take...

The wingnut war against privacy rights and the separation of state and church is hard to laugh at. We are slouching towards Gilead day by d...

Bill Gates, who is just like us except a little bit richer, wants to get rid of the upper limits on H1-B visas, the visas for importing godd...

I never understood the political calculus that must have been taking place inside Blair's head when he chose to be Bush's poodle. I...

Because I have no other topic ready for blogging. I find Kofi Annan's voice the sexiest one in the whole universe. This is a handicap i...

There is a season to everything and right now the season is to wonder what blogging is all about. The egotistical version of that one is of...

I'm sure that you have heard or read about how South Carolina decided to make cock fighting into a felony crime while tabling a similar ...

Today's Action comes from NRDC: Tell your senators not to prohibit filibusters of judicial nominees Whenever a single political party co...

It has taken me a long time to decide that this article is not a hoax. I so wanted it to be a joke. It is written by one Ronald E. William...

Kidding! Interesting cultural (or pseudo-macho?) differences in body language. Other pictures are funnier that way but this reminds me best...

Do you ever check the Google news page? If you do, do you scroll down to the health news, for example? I do this regularly, first with the...

According to some, it started yesterday when a church was used to televize political propaganda. I may be a little slow on the uptake here,...