ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I have bought two in Europe. They cost about four Euros each, and are covered with lovely little "emerald flowers". It takes tim...

I heard some talking head on the radio this morning discuss the need to get over hating Bush. According to this man the democratic base (or...

Remember that the last director of the Office of Women's Health, Susan Wood, quit in protest of the decision not to let the morning-afte...

The radical right calls me an America-hater almost every day. The idea that anyone criticizing this administration hates America and plots t...

Hank and the Loch Ness Monster These are quite lovely pictures. I hope they come across the same on the blog. Hank is enjoying the early m...

I'm not going to write about it. You can hear the wingnut interpretations all over the so-called liberal media. The wingnuts like Geor...

This comes from the National Women's Law Center, and you can find out what to do about John Roberts by clicking on their action page . T...

Froomkin : All you really need to know about the White House's post-Katrina strategy -- and Bush's carefully choreographed address o...

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Republicans in Washington, D.C., see the hurricane disaster in Louisiana as an excellent opportuni...

Democratic Senators, people who believe in democracy, anyone not delighted with John Roberts as the next Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme C...

Not a writing day, it seems. This is from Daily Kos : It is worth showing because Grover Norquist really wants to do what he threatened in ...

From Reuters and all over the blogosphere: Text: REUTERS/Rick Wilking U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Cond...

Salon has this photograph for your education: It goes with an article which asks some questions about the wingnuts and their funny attitude...

She is depressingly good. Link here .

Blanco and Barbour, the governors of Louisiana and Mississippi, respectively, are being compared and analyzed in USA Today (via Atrios ). ...

For your next conversation with a wingnut. Wingnuts live in an alternate universe, one in which George Bush is the younger brother of Jesus...

About federal blunders in the Katrina unrescue effort. The problem with this responsibility-taking is that I have no idea what he might mea...

While dodging questions on the woman's right to choose.

John Roberts reminds me of the Sleeping Beauty. There he lies, asleep, pristine, surrounded by rose bushes, waiting for the kiss from Georg...

Jonathan Alter writes about the poverty question in the aftermath of Katrina. I don't agree with everything he says but his article is...