ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Backwater Blues With photos and art from New Orleans, it's good to remember. posted by Anthony McCarthy

T here is nothing idealistic about insisting on ideals that have no chance of becoming reality right now and refusing to compromise. There...

The first step is to admit that you’re in a rathole. I t is generally understood that a politician needs to sell themselves to the voters in...

T he state of affairs on the leftist blogs have led to my having a crisis of faith in their usefulness for the left. The level of sexist an...

T he country, the world needs the Democrats to win the election in November. I ’ve been concentrating too much for too long on what we shoul...

ST. PETERSBURG - Students this morning reacted in disbelief and horror at the news three Dixie Hollins High School football players were arr...

Getting a Chihuahua has made me think of feminist philosophy. OK, everything makes me think of feminist philosophy. But Ginger makes me thin...

       In the We Hate Hillary issue of The Nation, executive editor Betsy Reed blames Clinton for dividing feminists. The article has gotten...

After watching the meltdown of so many liberal/progressive blogs over the Obama-Clinton fracas, I realized that on some blogs the preferred ...

While the media has gone on and on and on about Reverend Wright and his pronouncements, both on and off the pulpit, it has stayed fairly qui...

Washington University is giving Phyllis Schlafly an honorary doctorate for her work in all matters ultra-conservative. She is naturally be...

It's like middle-class tightrope walking, this current economic scene in the United States. You step on the rope, hanging on to your ba...

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League some fifty years ago made the players play in skirts. They were also taught make-up skil...

John McCain may look like a cuddly great-uncle, but he does not have your best interest in heart: Highlighting an issue he plans to use agg...

Michael Wolff has written an interesting meditation on the difficulties of being a middle-aged man in the United States. Suddenly, in the ...

Which will kill more U.S. military? It might well be PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, a mental condition ("failure to cope...

No, it's not that ad I get every time I check my e-mail, the one which says "Zap Belly Fat and Boost Libido Fast. As Seen On Fox T...

You know, the third highest medal of honor? If you are a woman who gets it, you will also be removed from your unit. Yup : A 19-year-old ...

Wizardry is afoot ! Substitute teacher Jim Piculas does a 30-second magic trick where a toothpick disappears then reappears. But after perfo...

Do you look like the Ten Most Influential Political Pundits in the U.S.? Left to right: Mark Halperin, David Brooks, Jon Stewart, Tim Russer...