ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Via Ritholz.com , we learn that at Fox News the slices of a pie can add up to more than the total pie! Now that is not only fair-and-balanc...

Some post-Thanksgiving humor for you. We all know that a woman bossing a man is funny whereas the reverse is as gods and nature ordained. ...

When the word “racism” gets mentioned, I bet a lot of people think of Klansmen in white hoods. “Sexism,” however, seems to conjure u...

This is a fountain at the Atlanta Botanical Garden . The water appeals to me as Florida enters its dry season.

Jen has made a list of things to be thankful for . I'd add the removal of the global gag rule to that list. But that would still be a ...

Don't shake hands with him, though. He is a wannabe comedian and a real fried-in-the-c*m woman-hater. Jaclyn Friedman wrote about him ...

This is a campaign by the UN Secretary General by men and aimed at men and boys around the world: The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has ...

Well, pre-holiday thoughts. (If you don't read this in the U.S. you may not know that tomorrow is a big holiday here, called Thanksgivi...

The picture below shows Mark Halperin's The Page before it was removed. Mary Landrieu is photoshopped to have sperm in her hair, base...

I have read neither the Twilight books nor seen the movie which means that I shouldn't write anything at all about the topic. But hone...

Somehow that phrase makes me think of grown pale-faced men in mohawks doing a war-dance on the island of Manhattan. Sadly, that's not q...

One of the weirdest things about blogging is that I never know if something I write about is totally obvious or if it might have some value ...

The following video may have been edited to emphasize the know-nothing side of Sarah Palin's supporters. Or perhaps not; many people a...

Something almost as good is available now! A surgery which installs an internal bra, one which prevents that most awful of all possible out...

Please educate me about the master plan of the Democrats in Congress. I'm a naive goddess, after all, and find it tricky to understand ...

I wrote about the health care reform last August , using this fairy tale as the metaphor: Mouse as the Cat's Tailor A cat walked along t...

Once again I am reminded what a bad, bad mother I am. My poor children -- I shudder to think how much of their adult life and paychecks will...

I choose to take mine from these news : Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health ca...

Subbing for Anthony McCarthy today. Please use the comments for your poetry, thoughts and topics you'd like to talk about. Even recipe...

This animated map of the growth of U.S. unemployment figures is fascinating in a horrible way. (Via David Derbes)