ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Mwah to all of you. Here's something to do today: A right-wing Hindu group, Sri Ram Sena, attacked Indian women in a pub one afternoon...

S urely John Boehner’s declaration yesterday, saying that he hoped the stimulus bill worked were the most dishonest words spoken in the coun...

         Comparing and contrasting has a rich history in writing and can be done in different ways to illuminate a subject. Comparing apples...

         The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have a public awareness campaign for the five most common types of gynecologic...

This is a century plant near Los Angeles. You don't get the scale in this photo, but the stalk is bigger than a person.

         The new show by Joss Whedon is on Fox at 9 p.m. EST, after “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” “Battlestar Galactica” comes ...

A health care article.

This sounds like fun : Greenspan Says He Was Mystified by Subprime Market Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, told C...

Remember the earlier post about the Wicked Witch of the East? The one which included a video showing Bill O'Reilly making 'fun...

I spotted an ad for a diet program: "Lose up to 25lbs! Guaranteed!" I'm sure they can guarantee that, because the only thin...

Rush Limbaugh has gone wild talking about the scary monsters hidden inside the stimulus package, including the assertion that the proposal t...

Oh, lots of such places . But one of immediate interest is the House/Senate Conference on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Here...

Here's an enlightening glimpse into what goes on at Fox: It's Bill O'Reilly having fun imitating Helen Thomas, calling her the w...

It's this one : During the February 10 edition of Fox News' Happening Now, co-host Jon Scott claimed that "the Senate is expect...

This newspaper article discusses the reactions of blog commenters to the octuplets of Nadya Suleman. It's difficult to know how good a...

The Church of England is considering how to introduce women bishops. The decision has been already made, but that leaves the pesky problem...

Did you watch it ? I thought he did fairly well, and I enjoyed hearing 'nuclear' pronounced correctly, mean-spirited as I am. What...

Funny. Watching political pundits makes me almost completely convinced that the whole stimulus bill is dripping with pork fat. This is pro...

Sometimes it is very hard to write satire about the rabid wingnuts and other anti-woman weirdos. Take the case of Silvio Berlusconi and wh...

T he afternoon sunlight is streaming in my window, a stiff, cold breeze is blowing and I’m thinking about Bela Bartok’s knuckle buster of a ...