ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Dan Kennedy has taken a long cold look at these United States, and concluded that we're a bunch of pussies (or as he'd put it, ...

About a long-distance swimmer : Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, exhilarated and exhausted as she touched land this...

A recent feminist conference had a presentation of the feminist blog community based on incoming and outgoing links. It's kind of int...

F or moral obtuseness THIS Pope’s aborted rehabilitation of bishop Richard Williamson sets a landmark in this monumentally obtuse papacy. ...

This gives you more than your daily cuteness ratio:

This is a seagull silhouette at sunset at Redondo Beach, Calif. I went there last month for a board retreat of the Sarcoma Alliance .

        No, this isn’t another post on BDSM. I’m talking about my bladder again.         How many urologists does it take to fix my bladder?...

FAIR writes about an article in the New York Times about the so-called crack baby epidemic which turns out not to have been either much of...

Suicides among the U.S. military may have killed more members of the American military forces in January than combat in Afghanistan and Ira...

I haven't done a piece about Brooks for ages, have I? His column "Ward Three Morality" is such a lovely thing that I can'...

Obama's op-ed piece in the Washington Post on the stimulus package. I like the way it ends with "The writer is the president of ...

Atrios asked an interesting question this morning: Have all the Democrats gone to an undisclosed location where there aren't any teevee...

This post is due to sally at Eschaton comments, who noticed that Sally Noonan appears to have undergone a personality transplant between 200...

Here's an article on price discrimination by gender, written by moi in my stern goddess-with-eyeglasses form. You might find it useful....

Still worth making a note of. Booman Tribune noted something Mark Steyn said about the plan to include family planning services for poore...

I'm so glad that I never mentioned him in this dratted manuscript I'm struggling with, about health care because I don't have to...

This is really weird to read in the current economic climate: The average tax rate paid by the richest 400 Americans fell by a quarter to ...

You may call me that if you ask nicely. I know it's a step down from "goddess", but we divines are often humble and like to s...

Two new medical studies suggest that most everybody and certainly their grandma should be put on statins: Two new studies indicate that the...

Spirit Airlines uses an advertising campaign which trades on the sexuality of its female staff: One ad features a large-busted blond woman...