ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I have left you a silly post for fun and an attempt at a novel that nobody will publish. Have a great weekend! See you Monday. Smooch.

With Chuck Norris .

Rosie and Bruce The tulips were pushing up from the black soil. They looked like knives, Bruce thought. From his window he could see sh...

To stop an eighteen-year old Iranian girl from being hanged : Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to take immediate ...

This, too, is courtesy of Helga. I should start paying her. Think of the panda's expression in the context of national and internation...

When George Bush says "freedom" he means something very different from the meaning of "freedom" to me and most likely to...

By Freewayblogger . It is Iraq: The Musical , and it is funny, upsetting, over-the-top and thought-provoking. It is also a parody, of cour...

This Slate debate between the wonderful Katha Pollitt and William Saletan on the best ways to approach abortion by pro-choicers is quite i...

Of the United States government. The people who will pay are the elderly, the poor, children and women on welfare and students: The House ...

This is a thirsty koala bear drinking from a wading pool in Australia during a heat wave. Thanks to Helga for the pic. I don't even kno...

Did you ever do those? We used to have to do a hundred at the beginning of karate lessons. Joe Lieberman would have done well in them, bec...

You may have heard the assertion that George Bush has coded messages in his speeches for his wingnut base. I think I have found the one in ...

Another self-adulation post. It's too early to do another one of these, so don't feel obliged to say anything nice in the comments,...

She was arrested for committing a misdemeanor in the room where the State of the Union speech was held: Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a falle...

Sometimes being a liberal blogger is hard work, hard work. I had to watch the State of the Union speech tonight, and I usually avoid seeing...

I received this interesting letter that Congressman Conyers and others have sent to the president. It's very sad that such a letter doe...

In Iraq. Alternet tells us that: In a startling revelation, the former commander of Abu Ghraib prison testified that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanc...

The old saw in medicine: first do no harm. It could be profitably extended to the repairs of the health care system, but few politicians ca...

Miners and miners. American and Canadian. Three large mining accidents have taken place recently on this continent, two (at the Sago and A...

Some good news today, courtesy of EPT in my comments . Check out this picture, carefully: It's the cover of the latest In These Times ,...