ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

A report from life Posted by olvlzl N ow, as you read this, Now, December 23rd In a kitchen, now in Maine Now, a butterfly, pale green, Refl...

It would have been nice to have included a real Christmas story, Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path". If you have it handy, it'...

H aving planned this weekend's posts as a sort of Christmas cracker for you I thought that an O Henry story would fit in nicely. No, i...

Posted by olvlzl. Y esterday my mother came back from her Christmas visit with a shut-in even older than herself, considering she's get...

Posted by olvlzl Y ou will be spared another joke about fruitcake here. A nyone who has ever tasted real fruitcake, made in a kitchen or a...

Posted by olvlzl. I haven’t seen the movie about Murrow yet, not going to the movies for years at a time, I get behind. I just saw “Chicke...

N ew Blogger was a bit reluctant to let me in this morning. Apparently the password changed or something. The posts will be coming soon...

It's frightening to number posts, because there might be only one, after all. This silly post is about one aspect of the American use o...

Check out the ten (or more) outrageous comments by wingnut pundits during 2006. Then think about how extreme many of these comments are. ...

Alice would be me. This is what I don't get: The political debate has recently been of the Alice-in-Wonderland type, where a person, s...

Let me see. How would you pick someone to the Corporation of Public Broadcasting board? Would you prefer someone who says this about publ...

This refers to the post right below and consists of an appendix, if you like, of all the things that I thought after pressing the Publish-bu...

Conservatives are tending that way, these days, out in the open. That many of them have always been sexists inside their private minds goes...

This recipe makes a crisp gingerbread cookie. I've left the desiliters and grams untranslated, because I'm lazy. My gingerbread ca...

Tut, tut. This post is all about the Iraq war. As all wise people know, the only serious blogging topic is the surge. President Bush'...

Tweety is Chris Matthews, a pundit, and he has been poking Hillary Clinton, to see what makes this female thing work. Examples from the sho...

Via this Kos diary , go here . It's a petition against the choice of Mr. Keroack, a man who doesn't believe in contraception, as the...

It's fun to juxtapose this year's winners for the best liberal and conservative blogs: Think Progress and Little Green Footballs ,...

I was going to write about Anne Applebaum's article blaming the "Old Europe" for not fixing America's problems in Iraq af...

I have all types of interesting political thoughts having parties in my head, but this doesn't seem to be the best of times writing them...