ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I'm glad to pay those union dues, just don't judge me by my shoes. King Harvest Has Surely Come The Band Richard Manuel's singi...

Note: If you want to read an important, real world, post about this issue, I'd suggest you skip mine and read Suzie's below. I had...

An AOL reporter wrote last week that Obama has been a Christian “all of his adult life.” His press secretary called him a “ mainstream Chri...

Caroline Herring's website mentions the years when she "paused to focus on marriage and motherhood as she continued to tour and pl...

In the pond near my apartment, a Muscovy duck guides her young ducklings. So cute -- when young, at least -- but taking resources from the ...

Authorities are planning to relax the one-child policy . The current policy, combined with the 'preference for sons' (or the 'd...

Paul Gonsalves. Tip from QuentinCompson. And it smells of autumn today!

It is the Three-Ring-Circus, on most days, and people are far from rational. Ever since my return from vacation I have struggled with the m...

William Saletan is better known to me as the guy who really knows how many reproductive rights women should have so mostly I don't read ...

1. I recommend this book review on the causes of the imploding financial markets worldwide. It can be heavy going at places but it's ...

Terry Jones and his congregation of fifty in Florida are getting the limelight attention he so obviously craves by planning to burn Korans. ...

New evidence of the use of rape as a weapon of war has emerged. The details are disgusting: The additional sexual attacks, in an area call...

Here's a survey which would make all dead statisticians turn over in their graves. It's a beauty! Horrible biased and leading que...

They are trying to do that over the pond, too, in France. The proposal there is to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. The French kin...

Today is, after all the day for labor in the United States, though the culture has managed to turn it into the last-day-to-go-to-the-beach-b...

Or: It's a few months to the midterm elections. Do you know where your base voters are? A new Gallup poll suggests that large chunks o...

B een looking for the sequence from The People Speak when Marisa Tomei reads the words of Genora Dollinger and found it in this interview of...

Craigslist has blocked its adult-services section with a black "censored" bar, with no comment from founder Craig Newmark or CEO ...

Hazel Dickens The Rebel Girl

Patti LaBelle Cleaning Woman From Working, based on the oral history by Studs Trukel