ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Abe Schwartz and "Miss Schwartz" (his daughter) Romanian Doina and Sirba Posted by Anthony McCarthy Note: "Miss Schwartz...

G overnment by a panel of wise men is an elitist dream going back to Plato. Its most notable feature is that from the time of Plato it has ...

R emember 2005? Remember the Republicans who were in control of the entire federal government and the government of Florida propping up the...

What Julian Assange has done raises questions about what should be kept confidential and how our leaders behave. I’m not talking about WikiL...

At the South Atlantic Modern Language Association ( SAMLA ) last month, a friend presented a paper on a novel written in English by an Ameri...

At the Atlanta Botanical Gardens , I kept urging my friends to stop, explaining that a century plant doesn't put up a spike like this e...

The New York Times has an interesting series on economics. Honest. A recent article is by James Galbraith: The premature and excessiv...

The Republicans have been busy practicing it : House Republicans have temporarily blocked legislation to feed school meals to thousands ...

Remember those bumper stickers stating that "Hate Is Not A Family Value?" Whenever I saw them I used to mutter to myself that of...

And of course women commit crimes, too. But men committing crimes is not exactly news, whereas women committing crimes, be it ever-so-few,...

When I wish I could crawl back into the cozy snake egg and sleep a few millennia. Maybe the world would then either not be here anymore or...

This is a good lesson for almost everything you hear. Go to the original: find the study if you can, find the actual quote in its origina...

T emporary ones , at least, including the rich. That's nice to know, especially with the belt-tightening we are all told to expect. ...

Is infertility! Or so Vanessa Grigoriadis tells us in a long article about the 50th anniversary of the contraceptive pill. I find it tr...

It might be safe now, because your food may be inspected a little more closely in the future: The Senate on Tuesday passed a sweeping ov...

That's a new acronym I've invented (I hate them, by the way) along the lines of IOKIYAR which means It's OK If You Are A Republ...

I got linked to on a righty blog in such awe-inspiring company that I knew something must be off : President Obama's call not to give...

It is referred to in the New York Times article about the federal pay freeze: The federal workforce is an obvious first target, if one ...

No raises for federal workers for two years, then. That's the bipartisan message of president Obama to the Republicans. The way th...

Ruth Calvo at Firedog Lake was listening to Washington Journal the other day and noticed something that neither Washington Post economics w...