ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

The top brasses of Britain are preparing for a meeting to decide what to do should George Bush be determined to attack some country with a ...

The New York Times joins in the conversation about netroots in politics: the meaning and value of the political blogs : For all the attenti...

Something horrible, horrible!, has happened to our old friend the Liberal Avenger today. Check it out.

I will never get my blogroll up to date. According to an article in the U.K. Guardian , there are at least 240,000 feminist blogs. No way ...

Via feministing.com , I learned that two legislators in Alabama want to join in with all the fun the South Dakotan legislators are having:...

Because every proper blog must have something boring on Fridays I give you a discussion on the way we divide the economic cake in this coun...

Hank's death dumped me into the world of grief. I didn't expect the strength of this dumping because there was so much grief in cop...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has admitted to tactical mistakes in Iraq: "Yes, I know we have made tactical errors, thousan...

A two-day summit on "Protecting the Biblical Institution of Marriage and Family Values" gives us this pearl of wisdom : "Apos...

A new medical study did not find long-distance praying helpful to the patients: A study of more than 1,800 patients who underwent heart byp...

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An interesting Salon article tells us about the conference entitled "War On Christians". The speeches were suitably warlike, an...

Wonderful news ! --- Added later: Check out Think Progress on what the wingnuts say about it all. Warning: Not pleasant.

Two stories on giving birth caught my snake-eye recently. One is the story about "The Monument for Pro-Life", a sculpture preten...

Jane Hamsher must be a reincarnation of Dorothy Parker. I will never get on her wrong side however divine my powers might be, because Jane ...

Via Holden Caulfield of the blog First Draft , I learned of this fascinating summary of the free markets by George Bush : The other big oppo...

It made me giggle and that is an achievement this week, so I thought I'd share it with you, though I deleted the address and e-mail info...

Could someone try to resuscitate her, please? Otherwise we will keep on reading stuff like this from Tom deLay: Earlier, the former House ...

Has run into some difficulties : A bill to ban most abortions in Mississippi died tonight after House and Senate negotiators failed to reach...

When you really need a new kitchen but can't afford one it helps to buy new curtains for the windows and new dishtowels. If you are rea...