ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Time to celebrate all the mothers, right? Well, the Office of the Surgeon General has slightly different ideas about what is suitable for t...

I have written a long post in praise of secularism on the American Street. Go there and tell how to think about the topic better. Of cour...

Yin-Yang Fishes This is a pillow/cushion cover. It's a joke on the yin and yang stuff. I'm always annoyed by dualisms, even when t...

Today's Action is based on an email from the DNC: Can you imagine what Republicans would say if a liberal went on national television an...

Henrietta, Plotting

Go to dailyKos and read this diary . Then listen to the audio link in the diary.

Is that a word? If it isn't I declare ownership of it. Driplets are these multiple things that ooze out when I try to write something ...

It is time for me to stop being a lefty propagandist and to adopt the mature approach of the mainstream media to events in this world. For ...

For one thing, you can't donate sperm if you are a gay man. Who knows where that penis has been: To the dismay of gay-rights activists...

This is a quick runthrough of the most recent Southern Baptist -type developments in Jesusland. First, Wiccans can't read invocations ...

According to the recent USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll Americans are growing weary of the Iraq war. I'm growing weary of the growing weary o...

It's no accident that sinuses start with "sin". What do we need them for, anyway? Mine seem to think that it's to produc...

A military judge Wednesday threw out Pfc. Lynndie England's guilty plea to abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, saying he was n...

They were demonstrating against what they view as the liberal media. It's nice to see all of them, isn't it?

About all these wars. Well, we did know, perhaps. At least some of us. Bush attacking Iraq after bin Laden attacked the U.S. was nonsensi...

John Tierney inherited William Safire's column in the New York Times . Safire is a wingnut and so is Tierney, of course. It's an o...

I nicked this one from SWR in the Eschaton comments . It's just so perfect for describing the differences in the way the U.S. and the ...

I was linked to on Slate : Fair and balanced and … public? In the latest example of backlash against the allegedly liberal news media, CPB C...

This is something I had in my mailbox: Hello, Today marks the beginning of Chastity Awareness Week in Pennsylvania and NARAL Pro-Choice Amer...

Today's Action comes from NARAL: Next week, May 2-6, Members of Congress are high-tailing it out of Washington for a late spring recess....