ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

From the government. It's a study which compares the performance of public and private schools in the United States. The reason why th...

This is Henrietta asleep, before she had a gray face. My attempt to use colored pencils.

Not organs or pianos but spare hearts, kidneys and lungs : On Fox News' Your World, ABC anchor John Stossel advocated the legal sale of ...

First the bad news : The danger of Iranian-backed adventurism is immense right now, but that's all the more reason for America and Israe...

I was trying to think of my equivalent for George Bush's wild boar roast in Germany, the one that was on his mind when someone mumbled s...

From Froomkin's column: And on Lebanon, Bush embraced what sounds like an improbable goal. "Whatever Israel does, though, should n...

That was my score in this test . You should take it, too. Now. --- From DWD.

Now I feel like a real blogger from the far left. Obscene and all. The title is supposed to be a Finnish insult. I got it from this artic...

Ana Maria Cox's bad review of Katha Pollitt's book has probably earned Katha quite a few extra royalties by now. Don't they a...

Perhaps a new type of international diplomacy ?

It's an interesting topic, and one as American as apple pie. Americans dislike intelligence and learning, and this dislike starts early...

A rhetorical question, but one that might be worth asking of those mainstream journalists who have recently written so much about the profan...

So pleads John Tierney. In this female-dominated culture, can't we let the guys keep their sports scholarships and easier access to co...

Now this is a much better fit for my odd desire to bring Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition into everything: Charlotte Allen has writte...

If this U.K. Independent article is correct, things are not going well in Afghanistan: The letter pinned overnight to the wall of the mos...

For more, check out Froomkin .

I really should have been a priest. I would have been an excellent priest. I have the booming voice and good acting skills and an excellen...

David Brooks calls the opposition to Joe Lieberman liberal inquisition . Interesting that he selects a religious analogy for his angry colu...

Seymour Hersh's new piece on the U.S. Iran policies is worth reading if you don't mind getting a tummyache today, from worrying, an...

This is Doug's dog. A happy Lab whose name I can't recall right now. Henrietta has had her semiannual physical, semiannual because ...