ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I magine there’s no Viagra, ... no Enzyte, too. N ow that you’ve done one impossible thing today, imagine that instead of the male sex dru...

J ust haven’t had the stomach to hear how the cabloids are playing the Clinton’s tax information, though I’m sure it will end up as yet anot...

A nother one that has had way more than their share of NPR time is Leon Fleisher, as mentioned here just over a year ago. As I’m sitting h...

T he past week on Fresh Air from WHYY, was better than average. Especially good was the interview Terry Gross did Thursday with Michael G...

            Instead of a photo, I'm posting the smell of whatever my Chihuahua Ginger rolled in. It's so eye-watering strong that ...

Pictures courtesy of Tlazolteotl, who tells us that the first parrot, Aziza, is a dusky Pionus: The second parrot, Kelele, is a Timneh Afri...

That is Ali's Brook. And this is scout prime's Willie B. He is originally a New Orleans kitty.

               I get irritated when people call the Florida primary  "meaningless."  Like all elections, it was a snapshot of the...

         In his speech on race, Barack Obama said some people have implied his “candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action.” Co...

          During this election season, there has been much gnashing of teeth over the idea that a woman might (or should) vote for a candida...

Kathy Lee Gifford is returning to television : Kathie Lee Gifford had no intention of returning to TV – she just happened to be in the right...

I once wrote a story called "The Little Red Riot-Helmet", where George Bush takes the place of the Little Red Riding-Hood. The r...

Gilead is the name of the dystopian country in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale , and this news story sounds like something we ...

That's me, when it comes to certain markets, especially the markets for medical care. It's not terribly popular in this country to ...

I'm blogging as a guest at the Passing Through blog of the Nation magazine. Check the first post out if you like economics.

I forgot about that, and now I wonder what I have swallowed without any cynicism today. We really have had seven years of being April fools,...

Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon has written a book It's A Jungle Out There. The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Enviro...

You may have read that women are voting for Hillary Clinton only because she has a vagina and that people of color are voting for Barack Oba...

Do you like them? If we are entering a post-literate culture, perhaps podcasts will be the way we get our information and our entertainment...