ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Because the Rolling Stone magazine has published an article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about the election thefts in 2004 it is no longer tota...

You could crouch behind them, I guess. But more seriously, the way federal resources have recently been re-allocated between cities which m...

I was rearranging some of my bookshelves in a desperate attempt to control the books which are threatening to take over the house and I came...

Bill Frist (aka "the catkiller"), the Senate Majority Leader, argues that banning the burning of the U.S. flag is a pressing issue...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is bad for babies : Researchers from the UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) analysed the outcome of 28...

Such a hard topic to write about. I can taste the bile in my mouth after reading so many descriptions of the events and I expect not to sl...

There's a new computer game which allows you to kill infidels: Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is...

An interesting anti-contraception site led me to this graduation speech about the selfishness of contraception. It's fascinating how ...

Many of the horrors in Iraq are oddly mundane. Take this recent horror story : U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women - one of them about to gi...

This is one of those bugs that goes around on the internet: people tagging you with a question that you are supposed to answer or else... J...

This is something journalists and other popularizers often have trouble doing. Consider this left-column summary of a blogpost in the Broa...

What an odd coincidence it is that the New York Times and the Washington Post both decided to have articles on female politicians this mor...

And not get punished for it, that's the question the Supreme Court decided today: The Supreme Court declared today, in a ruling affecti...

I should be writing about Memorial Day but I have a bad cold and my head is full of snot, with too little space in it for my usual muse guy...

Dahlia Lithwick in Slate explains : Does anyone else out there find it strange that the media is treating Elizabeth Vargas' demotion as...

Politics is a funny bidness sometimes. For example, when the popularity of a leader plummets he may suddenly have to resort to totally new ...

Have you noticed how almost everything is now made in China? Check the labels on your clothing and electronics or on your shoes, and the ch...

News from the great new democracy of Iraq: The coach of Iraq's tennis team and two players were shot dead in Baghdad on Thursday, said ...

To my wonderful guest bloggers who did a fantastic job while I caroused and enjoyed the fleshworld more than usually. I raise a toast to B...

Blogging topics are like that: iridescent soap bubbles leaving a pipe and floating uncertainly upwards until they !pop!. And then they are ...