ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Joe Perham , my favorite Maine humorist .* At least I think he's the one I heard it from. Posted by olvlzl. My uncle went to Chicago b...

Posted by olvlzl. T here is reason to be disappointed with the Democrats in congress, though their failure to override Bush’s veto of the or...

Posted by olvlzl. H earing that you should endeavor to broaden your experience as you age in order to keep the brain healthy, I picked up m...

Posted by olvlzl. T his would be just another strange story of rather esoteric research into claims that people are able to do unexpected ...

Posted by olvlzl. In Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, Mitt Romney completely misrepresented how we ended up in Iraq. Later, Mike Hu...

Have you ever wondered how creationists manage to squeeze the dinosaurs into the ark? This is the sort of research problem one faces when b...

I have long intended to blog about political cartoonists and the percentage of women among them. That percentage is very small, and I want ...

This is FeralLiberal's Pippin. Nice pictures and very relaxing to look at. I feel like having a nap now.

President Bush is suffering from a stomach virus. When I read the story the picture attached to it was this one: Weird.

While I was writing my response to Joe Klein's post about blogging I started thinking about something else, and that is the selection bi...

Joe Klein wrote a piece on the meanness of some lefty bloggers. Here is the gist of Klein's complaint: But the smart stuff is being dro...

It's a funny old world. Paris Hilton was freed from prison after a day or so. Had she been a total unknown she would not have been and...

UPDATE: The subcommittee approved a 27.8 million increase for the program which does not work. ===== Have you heard that giving more money ...

Jessica Valenti was on Steven Colbert's show last night, talking about her book Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Fem...

Jill at feministe posted about American Life League's press statement concerning poverty: Abortion is an act that takes the life of an ...

Politico is a political site, full of serious bloggers who know all about electoral politics. But they also have a gossip blog appropriatel...

The British Guardian has a story about obesity among Chinese children and what the government is doing about it: Compulsory waltzing will ...

I recently wrote about the Bush administration's determination to keep a meatpacker from testing all its animals for BSE or the mad co...

A radical Islamic group is threatening women who work for the official Palestine television station: All 15 women presenters reported for wo...

These are my payment for blogging, the time at a cocktail party when I grab your shoulder and will not let you go while I tell you all about...