ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

T he law is an ass. It is an ass by intention. It is the fool of the wealthy and powerful. Its status as an ass is protected by the courts...

A letter-writer for Amnesty International, I loved “Closet Land,” a 1991 movie about an author of children’s books and her interrogator. Am...

This post is likely to cause nausea, inability to sleep and later nightmares. Readers are advised to take proper precautions. I would not ...

Julie Savell-McCandless captured this woodpecker eating seeds on her deck.

Have you ever thought of Catholic hospitals and women's health care? Lindsey writes about a case which should make you do so: A nun in...

Do they exist? I know the stereotypes about wearing overalls and Birkenstocks and unshaved armpits. But are there real-world feminist clot...

The talk of the day is about Rand Paul's views on individual property rights and how those feed back into his views about civil rights...

I'm no Gleek , but I caught Tuesday's episode because it was directed by Joss Whedon, my beloved. In the duet above, a glee club me...

D an Savage and I agree on some things, we don’t agree on others. Everybody Draw Mohammed Day is one of those we don’t agree on. While I...

Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, tells us that this is what's happening in the Gulf. A very very modest blip. There's lots of ocean and n...

I had a migraine, in fact, and that's the reason you have been waiting and waiting and waiting... For a post! Well, in my dreams. But ...

One writes pot boilers! Something about men being from Mars, women from Venus and the writer from Uranus. I was reading about a recent stud...

Mark Souder is resigning because he had a mistress. From his resignation letter : IT IS WITH GREAT REGRET I ANNOUNCE THAT I AM RESIGNING FR...

This is from a new book about Glenn Beck and focuses on his crying shtick. The piece is called "The Crying Conservative: How Glenn B...

You have most likely already heard about the sixteen-year-old Australian girl who sailed around the world. But the video is fun to watch .

The Texas School Board used to have lots of influence on the contents of American school texts simply because of the size of the Texas marke...

Embroidery by me. The Miss USA competition is a beauty pageant, should you not know. The pageant consists of women being judged on the basi...

No Comment Bette Davis Single [Anthony McCarthy]

I was working in the yard yesterday and took a small break from turning over a garden bed. The animals must have thought I had finally left...

But what if she’s straight? T he passing of Lena Horne this week brought a reminder of how heroic she was in the face of racism and p...