ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

“Shows that she’s really evil, that she takes cruel pleasure at the suffering of other people and small animals. No wonder Wolf couldn’t ha...

I t was one of the most moving musical experiences I’ve had in years, entirely unexpected and entirely at odds with expectations. When, aft...

Shakespeare's Sister comments on the new Republican Convention logo, this one: The elephant does look a bit stunned, with that starry e...

A good headline? This post will be on the topic of women not being able to have it all, as usual, specifically on that old saw I first read...

Something in the air this week? Suddenly two New York Times op-ed pieces are about the basic philosophies of conservatives. David Brooks ...

Doggie diarrhea all over your domain is disgusting.

We have the incredible opportunity to interview Echidne Coulter, the blond viper-tongue whose sensational utterances are the Talk of the Tow...

I wrote a review on Katha Pollitt's recent essay collection earlier on this blog. Another and slightly different take is available at...

Dirk Gently showed me an interesting site of a photographer, Jordan Matter. I am especially fascinated by his series of pictures of women ...

Listen to what president Carter did : Former President Carter got in a shouting match Wednesday with Sudanese security officials who blocked...

President Bush has vetoed the higher funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), as expected. This program is in...

What the lesson might be depends on your point of view. But in all cases watching this interview in The Daily Show is worthwhile. --- Added...

That is a name of a movement many years ago aimed at targeting the advertisers who chose to be connected with the Rush Limbaugh show. Now s...

It doesn't exist . Never mind, the New York Times decided to post a piece about such a gap, anyway, and in short order received 700 c...

That charming sentence was supposedly added to old maps when the map reached an area that nobody had any knowledge about. I love the idea! ...

Sex turns heads, does it not? I decided to look for some pictures of naked men to add to my blog decoration, but I got waylaid by this one:...

Neponset on Eschaton comments threads says that it is ba-a-a-ck: October 1, 2007. Jill Zuckman wants to know about the "age old questi...

Remember the need for the Senate to censor the MoveOn ad for the way it called General Petraeus General "BetrayUs"? Now that Rush...

Katha Pollitt's new collection of essays , Learning to Drive And Other Life Stories , is not about politics in the sense we have grown a...

T imothy Anderson’s stories of what it's like to be a gay trucker and growing up in the West are not like any other gay literature you’...