ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Can’t think of a more profound statement of loneliness than Abbey Lincoln singing Left Alone. Words by Billie Holiday, composition by Ma...

L argely unasked is the question of how the people McCain sought to win by choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate really think about her c...

The title of a hagiographic piece on Sarah Palin in the Los Angeles Times refers to her moose roots. Imagine that. Your roots are in mo...

This is my friend Greg Fight's cat, Peanut. Greg, a photographer, says: "He's a couch cat, stays indoors. He is very smart but...

          The son of Jewish immigrants, my father grew up poor in a multicultural, multiracial neighborhood where people joked about ethnici...

          You may have read about Charles Knipp , a white drag comedian who portrays a black woman. Critics have accused him of furthering s...

The Obama campaign has received ten million dollars in donations in the day following Palin's speech. Noice.

This will not end well, I swear, because I'm going to go down some scary and dark alleyways in this post while throwing out half-digeste...

(This picture from my files is intended to express my emotions about the post.) I was reading the Giuliani speech at the Republican convent...

I n the epidemic of their corruption and cynicism, the art of Republican political inoculation has built up a more than sufficient case fil...

Really. That's what I got as the message of yesterday's speeches at the RNC, though the final message seemed a bit more complicated...

Meaning that I watched her speech. This shows how heroic a blogger may have to be, sometimes. Here are my first impressions: Clean coal? ...

She is to the right of Attila the Hun. That's all you need to know about her. In any case, none of the readers of this blog think that...

The New York Times discusses a photo spread in a recent Vogue India and how it was created: NEW DELHI — An old woman missing her upper fr...

When I read this story about a girl being told she can't be a kicker on the football team because she is a girl I felt a wind from the ...

Did you know that Sarah Palin is "a mother from hell?" If there is such a thing as "a father from hell" it doesn't ...

Goes to William Saletan! He's tried for one for years and now he gets it. For this wonderful piece about the possible pregnancies of ...

Do you have what it takes to be a famous photographer? If so, do participate in this competition I saw advertised on a website with that sa...

A s the extremism of Sarah Palin comes into ever more frightening focus, the reaction of big media is interesting. Some of them seem scared...

Amy Goodman from Democracy Now being arrested: And another picture about the riot police arresting people. Meanwhile, the RNC has cancelle...