ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Hi, just a quick hit-and-run introduction. It is nice to use Blogger WYSYWIG again, though scheduling posts in advance is a nice thing about...

Cassie* was just six years old last January when she started to turn pale and feel an unfamiliar ache in her bones. The change was so gradu...

...to Bush's Connecticut lapdog. Three-term Sen.Joe Lieberman fell to anti-war challenger Ned Lamont in Connecticut's Democratic pri...

Takes place from tomorrow morning and lasts exactly one week. So you will be free of me for glorious seven days. But have no fear, this bl...

I wrote a longish post of advice on how mainstream journalists might cover the liberal and progressive blogs. It's on Eschaton .

It's OK if you are a Republican, especially if you are called Ann Coulter. What is OK? Well, misusing sources in a book might be. Usi...

A diary on Kos discusses this issue: I am an ex-fair housing lawyer who prosecuted several civil sexual harassment cases for the Department...

All U.S. politics wonks are right now focused on the Connecticut Democratic primary where Ned Lamont is challenging Joe Lieberman for his Se...

I'm guest blogging on Eschaton until Wednesday night. And then I'm going to go on vacation for one week. A later post will introd...

Froomkin's latest column quotes Bush and some others from his administration on the proposed Israel-Hezbullah resolution: Responding to ...

The great musher succumbed to leukemia on Saturday.

Thanks to saoba, in my comments, who saved the weekend from being dogless.

This is a series which is advertised as follows : Articles in this series are examining what has happened to men and women several decades a...

From Jesus' General . I found the funeral pictures immensely moving. We should make a law that those who send people to die in wars mu...

Courtesy of Lindsay on Rude Pundit. I especially liked this bit . Do go over to the Rude One and read all the great rudeness by us lassies...

That's what this blog isn't. It's not Target, either, even with the French spelling. It's a little general store in the my...

This is the headline of an editorial in the New York Times about Donald Rumsfeld. Those of you who follow these things know that Rummy got...

Not that they exist, but then it's fashionable these days to declare wars against concepts which can't fight back. Like "war on...

The war was lost, as the old story goes, because the nail fell out of the horseshoe, which caused the horse to go lame, which in turn made r...

Concerning the Connecticut Democratic primary in which Ned Lamont is challenging Joe Lieberman for his senatorial seat: Latest polls in Con...