ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Posted by olvlzl. T he other day on Christopher Lydon’s usually excellent “Open Source” he and a small group of well spoken people considere...

A war on Christmas proposal Posted by olvlzl. G etting asked once too often decades ago what my best Christmas present ever was my usual res...

Posted by olvlzl. W ithout environmental and worker’s protection here and abroad the answer would have been, no dice. So it’s good that Ope...

This is a reposting of an embroidery which didn't turn out as well as I wanted it to. But the idea still fascinates me. How do you tur...

I've taken part in a blog survey and as part of that survey the researchers also want answers from my blog readers. If you'd like t...

She died in her sleep at the age of eighty: Initially the only Democrat in Reagan's cabinet-level team and for a time the only woman, K...

That would make a very good name for a band. It isn't a band, sadly, but a new form of Promise Keeper-type all-men organizations which...

How do you make fun of a president who says things like this : I also believe we're going to succeed. I believe we'll prevail. Not...

This is not popular among civil servants, for fairly obvious reasons : Apparently, folks haven't been stepping up to the plate. So you c...

The discussion Christopher Hitchens's "Women Ain't Funny. Smooches, Bitch" story provoked suggests to me that there is a ...

The Hound of Baskerville, was it? In any case, when I was reading through all the blog posts on NARAL and its leader Nancy Keenan, I coul...

This game takes general income and wealth statistics and converts them into the number of friends out of one hundred that would match each s...

It's like one of those fairy tales which starts with "If we had a penny and then found another" and which ends with "Then...

Did you read the piece Hitchens wrote on why women are not funny? If you didn't have the time or the interest or the ability to unders...

The Snakepit Inc. ran out of heating oil yesterday, for reasons having something to do with a computer malfunction at the firm which meant t...

I'm allowed to bash economists a little, given that I belong to that stuffy group myself. And boy do we deserve some bashing. Via Atri...

The Supreme Court is considering hammering in yet another nail on the coffin lid of racial integration in American schools. The case it has...

John Bolton has resigned , or will resign, once his recess appointment comes to an end. What does this mean? I naturally hope that it means...

Tony Blair's fourth child was born while he was already Britain's Prime Minister. To get by, he did what some other dads in high-pr...

Danny Glover has written a much-discussed article about bloggers. The gist of the piece is this: THE Netroots." "People Power....