ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

                    A newspaper reports that Robert Benjo, 82, shot his wife, Peggy, 76, in Deltona, Fla., as she slept. Their doctor said t...

Has been working very slowly. That's the only reason I can think for the slowness with which McCain canceled his fundraiser with Clayt...

                  Please indulge me as I post my last tidbits from film scholar Jeanine Basinger’s speech on Joss Whedon. (See the post belo...

          Before Jeanine Basinger spoke at Slayage , she called Joss Whedon to ask what she should not say. The list grew longer and longer...

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones . It takes some time to get into the language and spelling used in the book and to appreciate how recent the...

Sometimes a person turns on a flashlight and directs it to the back brains of anti-feminists. When this happens we get a learning moment. ...

I've been puttering around, humming that to myself today. It was Chris Matthews who gave me that new way of seeing myself when he said ...

Fox News has called Michelle Obama Barack's "baby mama" in that text which runs at the bottom of the television screen. I di...

Many on the lefty blogs really like Webb as Obama's VP candidate. I think choosing him would be a major disaster, for several reasons, ...

What a beautiful dog she was, and intelligent. The dog with the most beautiful eyes in the whole world, the fiercest bark. She ran like th...

             In St. Petersburg, Fla., PETA is protesting the skinning of snakes and other reptiles for clothing and accessories. Once again,...

Women can be openly misogynist, too? It's a question well worth thinking about. Consider our main representative among prestigious pol...

In a science-fiction or fantasy book, possibly by Sheri Tepper, a planet has an indigenous sentient species which tells its history by singi...

Because tomatoes these days might give you salmonella. What with the recent spinach scare and the scare about pet food from China and on a...

It's a silly, silly thing, having to do with a right-wing television person's reaction to this picture of the Obamas: Here's wh...

Recently I suffered a week or so of nightly migraines. When I was thinking about going to see a doctor (because of the sudden increased fre...

Barack Obama's health insurance proposal includes mandates for children, meaning that all children must have health insurance, but no ma...

Digby has this to say about the sexism of the primary campaign: Clinton's campaign ripped open a hole in our culture and forced us to l...

This is rather startling : It's the only way Tory Bowen knows to honestly describe what happened to her. She was raped. But a judge proh...

Here is the transcript . Hecate went to the speech and has stories to tell . ---- The videos stolen from Eschaton .