ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Feministing.com posts about the reasons why women are not allowed to ski jump in the Olympic games and links to this : To anyone acquainted...

When victims of a sexual crime in Italy. That is what the country's highest court has said: Sexually abusing a teenager is less seriou...

Just finished reading Bush's thoughts on health care reform, and I feel like burning the hundreds of books on the economics of medical ...

This picture is from my family archives. I don't know who the gentleman in the picture might be, but I don't think the goat is bein...

"Hear no evil." "See no evil." "Speak no evil." Except that the new three monkeys all apply to the Bush admi...

I'm listening to Jerry Springer (too lazy to turn the radio off) and he is discussing this assertion in the context of protecting people...

Rush Limbaugh has weighed in the morning-after pill debate. You may know that Massachusetts is making Wal-Mart carry these pills, and Limba...

Chertoff says he'd do things differently. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff marked his first year on the job Wednesday with ...

Atrios's post about the New York Times columnist Bob Herbert's latest post uses the adjective "shrill". This is a joke ...

The Cheshire Cat , one of Lewis Carrol's creations, has the ability to fade in and out of vision. So does a paragraph , it seems: Last ...

The only way I can discuss the new Abu Ghraib torture pictures is by putting them into a longer post where I can then not look at them again...

Which is probably as suspect as all other research. But at least it lets me feel good about myself : Prof. Bialystok first noticed bilingua...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I didn't really get the excitement and continuous talk about Cheney's hunting accident. It seeme...

On a day when even the very sun kisses the foreheads of lovers everywhere, what does the wingnut boy of the New York Times give us? A war ...

Well, it's too late now for Robert Grenier who used to be the head of the CIA's counter-terrorism center. He was fired last week. ...

You might be keen to learn what the next stage in the so-called pro-life movement might be after getting Alito on the bench. It looks like ...

Dick Cheney spraying another hunter with pellets while quail hunting. For some reason I have no desire to write about it. I have also noth...

A long time ago I wrote a short essay, a bit clunky, on scapegoating. I find scapegoating to be perhaps the nastiest human crowd characteri...

Just to remind you of that if you start feeling dizzy and disorganized after reading this short quote : The government concluded its "C...