ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Jonathan Chait has written a long and interesting piece on the meaning of the "netroots", that part of the liberal/progressive bl...

I have a head cold. But I also have a daemon now, an ocelot (found via Hecate ). You can find yours at a website which advertises a new m...

This is the escort service operated by Deborah Jeane Palfrey in Washington, D.C.. Palfrey gave her client phone numbers to ABC and tonight ...

Olvlzl has a well-earned rest from blogging this weekend. I found some 1930's House and Garden magazines, and I may just scan some of ...

This is John JS's snake, or at least a snake that has decided to live near him.

The title is a reference to yesterday's post on this topic. The Los Angeles Times has an opinion piece with much the same thesis as m...

Is Ten Middle-Aged White Men Heh. This is in reference to the debate tonight between the Republican presidential candidates. It seems that...

A seventeen-year old Irish girl is stopped from traveling to the U.K. to get an abortion: A 17-year-old pregnant Irish girl is appearing in...

What do the following things have in common? "I'm the commander." "It is the haircut that will not die." "The...

The police seems to have gotten "a little heavy-handed" at an immigration rally. You can read about the event and various explana...

Dana Goldstein has an interesting post about a site which calculates the percentages of "he" and "she" on various webs...

First there is the comment of our president that Thers picked up at Eschaton: We put in more troops to get to a position where we can be in...

My apologies for posting about it earlier. But now you can read it here . Note the other great posts there , too. These are all part-and-p...

Ursula le Guin writes like a paradox. Her words are so simple, so calm, so obvious, and yet what she says is complicated and often ambiguou...

Eric Boehlert has a good post up on the media's interest in John Edwards' expensive haircut. He points out, among other things, tha...

On the more militant aspects of the pro-life movement and on the consequences of abortion clinic bombings. Warning: Pictures can be upset...

This story is one of those which make me think that if there is a god he is a sadistic journalist : As you may know by now, the non-story of...

The post is up now. Sorry, all. The blog I linked to isn't supposed to start until Wednesday, so my post has been hidden for the time b...

Paul Krugman (behind the firewall) talks about the high profits today: Last fall Edward Lazear, the Bush administration's top economist...

William Saletan is an abortion expert and a centrist one, too. This means that what he writes on the issue will be taken seriously. More s...