ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

From today's Washington Post : When Tim Holt spotted Maria Rabanales of El Salvador lying still in the Arizona desert this summer, he be...

I think the photographers have decided to show their respect for Bush recently: Or maybe it's impossible to get better pictures... I fee...

Is it an accident that he is portrayed in front of a picture that looks like a lone cowboy? He seems to have taken the role of the lone cow...

And very happy dogs they are, because the white cool stuff came down from the skies. Sniffing is more interesting through it. So is leapin...

Remember the New York Times article that told us about Bush eavesdropping on us, possibly illegally? Remember this part of it: The White H...

The radical religious right is not opposed to women's fashions, as long as they are demure and properly dignified. In Bangladesh it mea...

These are the awards of the lefty blogosphere. You can nominate blogs in various categories, such as the best professional blog, the best ...

The feministing.com posted about South Dakota's Abortion Task Force Report a few days ago: South Dakota's abortion task force has c...

Have you ever wondered what the origin of this term might be? I like this explanation the best: Eavesdropping: To be caught eavesdropping ...

There are some men just too difficult to catch. Like Osama bin Laden (remember him?). And also, it seems, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Well, to ...

I hope that they will go extremely well and that the Iraqis choose widely, though I still think that they are going to have a civil war firs...

I stole this one via Ruenil:

It's not good news for Rumsfeld that Bush thinks : "He's done a heck of a job. He's conducted two wars, and at the same tim...

Comes from a review of the movie "Syriana": Still, if it is going to say anything, then it ought to say something smart and timely...

Are you happy? The reason I'm asking is that my posts for some time now have been either angry, grumpy or sulky. Not happy at all. I ...

Finally George Bush takes the blame for the "faulty" intelligence that supposedly made him attack Iraq: President Bush accepted r...

Amanda at Pandagon has an excellent post on the perks of being the token woman, the only one admitted to the boys' treehouse, the one, ...

Wingnuts want victimhood. It's really hard to gain when one is in power but never mind. Someone, somewhere must be oppressing the wing...

I killed a man last night. His name was Stanley Tookie Williams . He may have committed four gruesome murders. He may not have been a good...

Do you read Dan Froomkin's "White House Briefing"? I do. It seems that I should have felt confused about the real nature of ...