ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

This is a fairly good diagnosis of the disease the U.S. housing markets suffers from. It is not a head cold or even a bout of flu, by the ...

This gossipy little article about the First and Second Ladies of Kenya reminds us all that it is not only the Muslims (and some Mormons) wh...

If I had aimed for the effect of maximal sarcasm : A 710-year-old copy of the declaration of human rights known as the Magna Carta — the ver...

The FCC with its runaway head has relaxed the media ownership rules . This means that Rupert Murdoch can determine an even larger portion o...

In this pre-Christmas season the "three wise men" among the conservative political talk-show hosts are all retracting their testic...

Anne Applebaum gives American feminists a spanking for not doing enough to liberate the women of Saudi Arabia. She uses the example of the ...

Nava is a Princeton undergraduate, very active in conservative causes. He felt that those conservative causes were not getting enough atten...

Chris Matthews fears that Hillary Clinton might have one of those, and that she will use it to snap off the penises of all the boys. Or per...

Those of us who wrote a lot about the scope for election fraud in the 2004 elections got awarded tinfoil hats. (Tinfoil is supposed to keep...

Paul Krugman's most recent column is about the Democratic front-runners, or at least about Obama and Edwards. He points out something ...

The Ten Best Books of 2007 were listed some time ago in the New York Times Book Review , right after the 100 notable books of 2007. I have...

W e have yet to know if I will survive the unpacking of the Christmas Village at my mother’s house this year. The thing doesn’t belong to h...

T his one will go without comment. None needed.

T he reason that Darius Rejali’s article in the Boston Globe about torture is important comes at the end, the possibility of suppressing it...

W ill Huckabee still get away with his cloying and rapidly congealing niceness act now that he’s hired the professional thug, Ed Rollins? ...

Desmond Morris has written yet another book in his "naked" series. The first one was The Naked Ape , many decades ago. The new o...

These pictures are by Darryl Pearce. The top two ones are of Mali: And the next two ones of Czar: The bottom picture is one I have posted b...

Michael Savage shows us how sexism is done : On the December 12 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage referred t...

Feminism as a movement, like most political movements, comes in waves. Feminism as a movement is different from feminism as an ideology , ...

Courtesy of Paul Krugman who writes about the new income inequality measures on his blog. The data now available comes to 2005. This is ...