ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Posted by olvlzl Note: I was going to write a followup to this piece in light of this weeks bridge disaster and the soon to be laid aside ...

I happened to come across a piece which celebrates the birth of the seventeenth child into the Duggars family. Now, the number of childre...

This is fourlegs' Maddie. Fourlegs takes great kitten pictures. What is the point of sudden photographs of animals on political blogs?...

I'm not in attendance at that conference, myself, and if you are not there, either, you can follow several of the events electronically...

I have written a longer piece on how the recent federal raise was passed. I meant to write a piece on the theories behind the minimum wage...

The Minnesota bridge collapse may have absolutely nothing to do with the topic of this post but it made me think again about the particular ...

President Bush was not the great communicator today when addressing the Minnesota bridge collapse: THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I just fini...

President Bush is planning to do lots of vetoing in the near future. He has threatened to veto the long-awaited legislation to shore up hu...

It's not really the Republican presidential candidates talking about their stance on abortion but it could be.

The patriarchs of the far right have proposed a bill which would make it compulsory for the "father of the fetus" (should be embr...

How much should an engagement ring cost? Three times the man's monthly salary? Ten times? What is the reason behind a very expensive ...

The bill passed in the House . Next is Senate. And then Bush will veto it, because women, minorities, the disabled and so on do not deserv...

Via Atrios , I learn that : Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham revealed on her nationally syndicated radio program that CNN has offered ...

He is a weird one, even for a wingnut pundit. His most recent venture is to "destroy" the Daily Kos website by urging firms not ...

The bill will be voted on tonight. What bill? The one trying to correct the Ledbetter case which this conservative Supreme Court decided t...

Are there any? I'm thinking of the concrete dangers here, such as becoming disrespected as an authority if you get something badly wron...

Remember that case in the Supreme Court? The one where they decided that you only have a few months to sue for wage discrimination? The Ho...

That is about all I have to say on this bit of news : A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global ...

Bleeding Hearts The white form of dicentra spectabilis , the common bleeding heart, is a lesson in pure elegance. It grows happily in quite...

An article in the Editor&Publisher mentions the topic of suicides among the U.S. military in Iraq: One of the least covered aspects of...