ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I can’t point to a post I’ve done this year that would be my favorite, none of the ones I’ve looked back at would go without a major revisi...

I. L ast week on his WGBH radio program , The Jazz Decades, Ray Smith played a very fine recording of Careless Love from the 1930s sung by a...

Is it sad that the Onion (a humor magazine) in 2000 predicted the Bush presidency almost to a t , with the exception of forgetting to menti...

Representative Steve (St. Eve?) King recently demanded that the U.S. Congress kiss the feet (or the ass?) of Christians all over the world,...

She is dead now. That's about all that is absolutely certain. Was she the U.S. plant in Pakistani politics as many believe? And if so,...

They are going to do just that in Texas: In what some have dubbed the "pole tax," the Lone Star State will require its 150 or so ...

One of the things I collect are old editions of the Almanac of American Politics (oops! I forgot that women don't collect, based on the...

(This is a post I wrote at the very beginning of my blogging career. I still like it as an example of the use of fairy tales, so here it is...

I have quite forgotten about my cootie awards ("Girls Have Cooties!") for the best misogynists. I'm going to start awarding t...

A recurring topic for conversation on liberal blogs is this mystery: How can the Republicans in New Hampshire state that illegal immigratio...

Jon Swift is going to do a year-end round of blog posts, those which the bloggers themselves liked the best. I write too much, but I will ...

Kristol doesn't like Paul. Paul is an extremist! It's quite funny.

You get to listen to the Christmas songs of my childhood. The first one begins: "I do not seek power nor glory but peace on earth....

I have finally seen the light. Feminism is wrong: ---- Link by the excellent Shaw Kenawe, a goddess of Italian food.

Who gets more pleasure from gifts, the giver or the receiver? What are the webs that are being woven when presents are exchanged? If you g...

Have we yet measured the height and weight of the presidential candidates? Have we looked at their teeth? There's probably an article ...

O ne of my fondest memories of Christmas is from a couple of decades back when I was the only person working at our public library the after...

L ast year, the week before Christmas I was thanking Bill Moyers for his great journalism, this weekend’s program requires the same. Benja...

N o matter how great or justified your pride or modesty, how well or badly you do, no matter how brilliant or foolish, good or bad, to these...

I f Christians are people who try to apply the teachings of Jesus to life, and the word has no meaning if this isn’t the case, they are on...