ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

A blue heron in flight, courtesy of The Old Man From Scene 24. Click for a larger view. Beautiful.

Dog culture is pheromone based. What stinks to us is to their taste, To them high art, to us just waste. Dog culture is pheromone based.

A Note: I've been taking some courses that I've got to finish this month so I'm going to be posting very lightly in April, if at...

Compare the two pictures of the new Israeli government. The female ministers have been disappeared in the second one, because it was publi...

           (Hang on, this post will travel far afield.)            A friend traveled across Southern Europe and Northern Africa as a young m...

           Florida has seen a 37 percent increase in the demand for domestic-violence shelters, according to a report to the Legislature by ...

        I hope you're enjoying springtime (if that's the season you're in). 

The Republican Party, that's who. I was reading about Kathleen Sebelius and her confirmation hearing to become the secretary of health ...

Shouldn't it be first spice? You know, mouse-mice, louse-lice. In any case, nobody writes 'first spouses', because the spouses...

I wanted to write about it yesterday because it really is an April Fool proposal but then people might have thought I made it up . Because ...

Is the new boyz' magazine. Like Playboy. Except that we are supposed to pretend that it's not, because it has real articles. Unle...

Do you ever read in my archives? I went back to see what I have written on other April Fool's Days. In 2004 : Let's look at somet...

So I wake up this morning, get some coffee and start reading my various e-mail accounts. Except that a major one has changed to a 'new ...

While writing " The Egg Made Me Do It " I tried to clarify why the topic angered me so very much. The reason is nebulous and has ...

Women are 'taken care of' : Hamid Karzai has been accused of trying to win votes in Afghanistan's presidential election by backi...

Am I imagining things or is the British society sexist in an especially nasty way? Here's something I read today about a study concern...

The New York Times has a piece on Glenn Beck today, called "Fox News's Mad, Apocalyptic, Tearful Rising Star." I'm not ...

Larry Summers, that is. He's going to take us all back in time. First only a fortnight or so, to his speech at the Brookings Institut...

I'm sure that everyone here is aware of PETA's "pro-animal" ad campaigns, which almost invariably present nude women in va...

A kitchen in a small inland town in Maine. Two men past 50 at the end of an uncomfortable but civilized discussion before going to work. ...