ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Struggling to regain her position as heir-apparent to the dubious legacy of Tea Party darling Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann took the oppo...

A human couple watched a sandhill crane couple build a nest in the pond near their house. The cranes cared for an egg and then a chick. The ...

Atrios makes an important point: You can see how everybody starts to jump a bit when TEH MARKET starts to crash. The labor market crashed...

You go into your blog archives and find posts, including posts which clearly took quite a bit work, that you have no memory of writing. T...

Tampa just had its first SlutWalk, and its message is vital: Rape victims should not be blamed because of what they wore, how many partners ...

Is to be a "lady", as well as to act as a symbol for the American Womanhood. I'm writing about the wife of the American pres...

Skylanda wrote extensively on the case of Ron Paul's staffer, Kent Snyder, who died uninsured. The case has returned to news becaus...

1. I lost about twenty e-mails from my inbox. If I have not answered something please send the message again. 2. Echo is acting up aga...

I have written about this writer of the Moomin books before. The books are for children but adults get something from them, too. Try Tal...

What is so good about that is her way of framing. As skillful as the Republican framing.

"Job Creators" is the new Republican term for capitalists as opposed to labor*! Such fun. I read through Rep. John A. Boehner...

I spent the last weekend in the wilderness, on a mountain, doing exercise. On the first day I came across a tiny snakelet, quickly slither...

The Gini coefficient is one measure of income inequality in a country. Its end-points are zero and one. Zero would be a case of perfect ...

Picture of an anthill taken by me. Have you heard that Ron Suskind has come out with a new book about the Obama administration? Stuff l...

You never want to point fingers and say I told you so when someone up and dies all young and tragic-like on you. But then, every once in...

“Manhood is measured in so many ways.” -- Robert Saxton, father of three. This sentence is in the last paragraph of " Fathers and the X...

From the Annals of Flying With Breasts... Okay, so I recently flew the tremendously unfriendly skies. On each leg of my journey, I was stopp...

Digby on epistemology and the media . Well, really about Social Security and how the press over-identifies with the low-information voters...

Ask Somalians. Or citizens of any country where the government fails. I have been thinking of this because of the prominence of weirdos...

You may have heard that expression before. I came across it yesterday in a context where fifteen young men had decided to abide by "b...