ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

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The forced-birthers are really clever about asking us to look elsewhere (Planned Parenthood! Nurses don't physically hand-cuff pimps t...

Never take your clothes off for a middle-aged man who claims that it's art. -- Maria Schneider, who died yesterday at 58. Some who wri...

Why send speaking heads abroad to discuss events if those speaking heads have no idea about the culture and don't know the language? W...

President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast. You should really learn more about that particular institution . I recommend J...

This is a musing post, not linked to any one particular current topic, yet linked to all of them. I was watching a Chris Hedges video (on...

I couldn't avoid that title after writing about the Planned Parenthood case below . Because that's what PETA often does in its ads...

I quote from the Nation : The problem is that, while you might want to laugh off Rose and her fake pimp as just a couple of creepy video p...

This is like that Acorn story, where a conservative filmmaker went around trying to catch Acorn employees doing something that is against t...

Via Atrios , you have the pleasure of meeting Dennis Prager : The most common left-wing objection to the right is that it wants to control...

How many of you think Hillary Clinton ordered U.S. diplomats to spy on their colleagues in the United Nations? She must have done so -- an I...

Shoveling time. The oil truck couldn't deliver because of the snow. The path to the tank is not used for anything else and shoveling ...

One judge has declared the individual mandate (the requirement that everyone has health insurance under the HCR) unconstitutional. I found...

Jennifer Armstrong sent me a link to this story. Then I saw it discussed in other places! It's a hilarious one, though of course it...

You may have read this NYT story today: In 10 short years, Wikipedia has accomplished some remarkable goals. More than 3.5 million artic...

Probably not because the kids are "mouthy." I'm referring to the case a few miles from me in Tampa, in which Julie Powers Sche...

It's summer in Down Under, sigh. The doggie is carrying a soccer ball. That's how soccer balls are supposed to look.

On this blog, that is. Shall I leave them empty or should I look for more co-bloggers? I can't do seven days every week, even with go...

Because mental health demands some balance. It's very snowy here. To give you an idea, the cement bird bath I have in the back gard...

I have not been following the news on those very closely, but it's not difficult to agree that Egypt needs a different government and t...