ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I once wrote a funny post about picking a style for a blog. But this one is meant to be more serious, what with the New Year and all, and ...

The first nonpartisan assessment of Bush's eavesdropping policy has concluded that it is not legal: A report by Congress's research ...

We don't have one. Moonbats, for those of you who have never heard the term, are us: liberals and lefties. I like the term. It brings...

Tom deLay is not going to return to his post as the majority leader. He wrote a letter which is available in the Washington Post . This bi...

If true, this could be worrisome news for the United States: China has suggested it may diversify its foreign reserve holdings away from a ...

This is a Wheaten Terrier. A very nice Wheaten Terrier, after a nice play in the mud. I spent yesterday afternoon at the local veterinarian...

He has been hired by the Hudson Institute, a conservative propaganda tank. Next time you read about some quasi-research results from the H...

Hesiod on Atrios threads linked to an article about the Internal Revenue Service tracking the party affiliation of tax payers: As it hunted...

A bad day today: IN ONE of the darkest days in Iraq in recent months, insurgents killed about 130 people in a series of deadly explosions t...

Interesting, given my earlier post on disasters as God's punishment, and the comments on the attached thread about Pat Robertson not rea...

Bush has taken advantage of the vacation lull to appoint lots of controversial people, many of them without any debate. A royal act, wouldn...

Wingnut style. One way is to attack the Barbie website : A poll on the Barbie Doll's website asks children to select their gender, and ...

It is out now and you can get it here .

This is all over the blogs. It seems that NBC is changing its transcripts from what actually went on in an interview about Bush's illeg...

The Sago mine explosion. Many hopeful prayers and statements about God and miracles. When it was thought that twelve out of the original t...

I'm quoting a tiny snippet of Digby's excellent post on the way many in the media try to argue that the Abramoff scandal is not real...

One quote in Tierney's column struck me with unusual vividity. It is by an evolutionary psychologist David Buss : "Of course, some...

I fervently hope that the miners will be found alive, and that similar accidents will never happen again. For the latter hope to be realiz...

Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist who has had legal trouble pleads guilty : Jack Abramoff will plead guilty to three felony counts in Washington t...

A Life, Wasted --- Via this Kos diary .