ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

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We finally find and kill that evil fuck, Bin Laden. You gots to ask yourself then, why, on every single goddam talk show, news broadcast a...

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Reading a particularly revealing piece like this one makes my knees go weak and my eyes light up with delirious joy. To be offered a well...

Just now, in the Chinese restaurant: Cashier: Thanks, res. Happy Mother's Day! /hesitates Are you a mother? Me: No. /smiles Cashier: Oh!...

Ezra Klein writes about the vulnerability of Medicaid today: There are two reasons Medicaid is more vulnerable than Medicare. The first i...

Watch Paul Ryan get tangled in his own shoelaces (metaphorically speaking) in this Racine Townhall meeting: Ryan has previously oppos...

This bill has passed in the House though president Obama has told that he would veto it. Yet 235 Republicans and 16 Democrats voted for ...

Now that it has a newly majority-Tory government, Canada has commenced war against its female citizens, too .

Trigger Warning: domestic violence. Yesterday, I put up a post about Barbara Sheehan , who killed her husband after being battered by him f...

Did you manage to read about Osama bin Laden using one of his wives as a human shield? The story began here: " Here is Osama, livin...

Gina Kolata writes about a liposuction study in the New York Times. This study is interesting because it matched the experimental group h...

Joanna Russ, a feminist science fiction writer, died on April 29, 2011 . She is best known for her novel The Female Man . Several feminis...

Lara Logan's 60 Minutes interview is not going to get much attention because of bin Laden's death. But it should be discussed. Th...

I heard about it last night in the president's speech and then watched people celebrating (USA! USA!) on television. The three vibrant...

P eople who don't follow the Catholic Church would probably be shocked to find out that a lot of the people who reject the fast track to...

Johannes Brahms Op 44 Four Songs for Women's Chorus Cambridge Singers John Rutter conductor I was looking for something for Walpurgisn...

M att Honan at Mother Jones Magazine, has made a very useful flow chart that explains how the corporate right manages to turn their lies in...

Yes. Everybody knows that men marry women with good looks and that women marry men with resources, and that this is because of what took p...