ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

It is now permanently available for clicking on my address at the top of this blog. You can also see some of my embroideries at that site....

According to the ABC News : The U.S. Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of "l...

More of a writing exercise than a real post, because I had these tremendous deep thought experiences last night and I didn't write them ...

The title makes little sense. Neither does what it refers to: the way prominent pundits keep arguing that the Abramoff scandal is bipartisa...

How many members of Opus Dei do we need on the Supreme Court of the United States?

Go to Oliver Willis and click on the video concerning CNN's newscast on John Kerry. It is not exactly neutral and unbiased. For those...

We need some cute this week. It has been exhausting and even downheartening. So I'm happy to present you with teh cute : A nice Wheat...

Ann Coulter has joked about the need to give Justice Stephens some rat poison : Coulter had told the Philander Smith College audience Thursd...

This article talks about FBI surveillance of a vegan protest outside a store that sells hams. The ACLU of Georgia has obtained copies of t...

Via Eschaton , I hear that Rick Santorum, that holy warrior from Pennsylvania, is having a sore tummy or something else that makes him prete...

I believe that the Democrats should filibuster Alito. There are arguments opposing filibustering which have some general merit, especially ...

Moonbotica is an English blogger. Her Palestinian friend borrowed her blog to tell about how the elections went: finally hamas won and tha...

It saves lots of innocent people from reading David Brooks. He is now telling us that the Democrats have failed because such a small propor...

To remind you to read or to copy my series on the gender gap in earnings. I toiled over it and so should someone else... Here are the link...

Then : Bush not concerned about Bin Laden. Bush: "So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on ...

There is a new blog for feminist law professors . Check it out. Alternet has started a new blog on the way wingnuts frame the public debat...

Most likely just for a few hours but it's a good idea to have something posted before. Here is a silly poem BG sent me by e-mail: Overhe...

The reference is to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale which describes a future dysthopia where religious fundamentalists rule a...

Listen to this : The Bush administration, citing the confidentiality of executive branch communications, said Tuesday that it did not plan t...

You should read the first two parts of this series first, to fully appreciate what I write here. The theory post is here and the empirical...