ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

The Salon has an odd and interesting article about women who become suicide bombers; odd, because the article starts like this: Though the...

Which is the death that we should lament? The death of frozen embryos , left over from fertility treatments? Or the death of Israeli and L...

The top two pictures are of Hank. She was a wonderful dog. The bottom is of Henrietta. I may have shown it before, but it's a nice on...

A recent Kevin Drum post posed the question of the vanishing middle class in this country: Over at The Corner, even John Derbyshire thinks ...

Some weeks are so full of events that I get only a small fraction of them into posts. Then other weeks nothing happens, but I can't wri...

This Washington Post article , via Atrios , comes as close to telling that the reason Bush is twiddling his thumbs about the Israel-Hezbull...

Explanation : U.S. President George W. Bush playfully slaps U.S. Congressman Al Green (D-TX) as he greets delegates following his remarks at...

It is calling. Can you hear it? I can, and will be gone until later tonight. Here is a good piece for you to read in the meanwhile. Or ...

The Washington Post has two articles on the U.S. foreign policies today, both of them asking what George Bush should do about the Israel-He...

Are no longer writing, reading and arithmetics. Perhaps we should upgrade them to rabid, reactionary and Republican? I'm not sure. But...

Those of Afghan women. Phila on Bouphonia blogs about a recent move by Hamid Karzai to bring back the "Department for the Promotion o...

Can't really be done. But there are days when I wish that the Iraq occupation could be ended when a sufficient number of Iraqis have be...

First, Cecilia Fire Thunder got into trouble for suggesting that she might open a Planned Parenthood clinic on tribal land in South Dakota,...

Duncan Black, the blogger Atrios , has written an oped piece for the Los Angeles Times on why the left is furious at Joe Lieberman. He to...

Yours to grab freely. I think this would make a great movie: Suppose there is a planet with lots of history and all sorts of international...

Click on this site and then choose Video. You won't regret it. Via docstrangelove.com . International diplomacy...

That is what you attach to the hems of your lefty jeans: a fringe of secular, multi-cultural beads. Not really, but that would be much mor...

You could do worse than seeing Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth , but if you're pressed for time, watch this one .

People live in different realities. Just check this Doonesbury cartoon from Sunday (courtesy of Carty), which makes the happy point that f...

For some serious money to be injected into the Democratic politics: An alliance of nearly a hundred of the nation's wealthiest donors i...