ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

This is Gracie. Picture by Nick Carraway.

Here's a fun puzzle for you. What will you deduce from the following information ? Women account for 85% of all consumer purchases, i...

That Maher likes women the way he might salivate over a nice beef roast has been known for a long time. It's part of his shtick. We a...

I always admire the Republicans' ability to define the terms in our public conversations. How they do it! Take, for instance, the con...

A petition asking Wal-Mart not to stock a new game . More on the reasons can be found here and here .

Worth spelling it out , I guess: Santorum is quoted by the Los Angeles Times as saying, “Well, a third of all the young people in America ...

Uterus, uterus, uterus, uterus, uterus, testicles, uterus : Republican members of the Florida House of Representatives chastised a Democra...

I have enjoyed a break from his Taliban views but nothing lasts forever, alas. Rick Santorum wants to be the boss of us all (president) an...

Those are the reasons for my block. I am exasperated and frustrated because difficult topics are treated as easy in the mainstream media an...

Is there a plumbing service for a blogger's block? Those words together sound like a clog in the arteries, too.

And there were many to pick from, including the bad manners of the Dane County Republican Party in Wisconsin and Sean Duffy's difficu...

Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law : a controversial bill that makes the state the first in the nation to outlaw abortions perfo...

Picture of some of the plaintiffs in the Wal-Mart case. Betty Dukes, after whom the case is named, is the first person from the right. I...

The NYT is up with a follow-up to its shameful story about the gang rape of an eleven-year-old Texas child. (If you're blocked by the...

My first emotion was intense fear. My next emotion was guilt because I should have been as joyous as others were. But the fear came from ...

The concept of American exceptionalism keeps cropping up. It's like those little weeds sprouting out of the dark earth in late March. ...

From here . The text in the sign reads: FEMINAZI Because wanting to be treated like a HUMAN BEING is JUST LIKE invading Poland.

Lance Corporal is a British medic who was awarded the Military Cross for bravery : Lance Corporal Kylie Watson, 23, tried to resuscitate ...

I 've mentioned here before that, contrary to the stereotype of the Irish, neither my parents nor my grandparents drank. Of my great a...

Bedrich Smetana Sonata in e minor, Two Pianos 8 Hands