ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

That would be Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment. The novel is part of his Diskworld series but can be read without any background ...

On the level of a country, that is. The international competitiveness of a country suffers from that need for the oppressor to keep one fo...

I was thinking Bad And Sad Thoughts last night (all night!), after hearing about the early election results in Egypt and especially about t...

Early election results: Two major Islamist political parties prevailed in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections, an elect...

People become journalists because they want to hang out with powerful people and get power themselves. This desire for power corrupts the ed...

Like these. Note also the color-coding on which I have written before .

Atrios commented on this article about Martha Coakley, the woman who, according to some, campaigned so badly that she lost Ted Kennedy...

The incomparable Nina Simone plays "You'll Never Walk Alone."

This is the way one is to describe some male politician having a history of extramarital affairs, I guess. Jon Huntsman : Jon Huntsman do...

None of these are silly in an innocent way unless you take a very, very long view and regard yourself as belonging to the ethnic group of p...

What an ugly word for something so beautiful and life-affirming! But I forgot about it. You can send in belated happy-blogoversary wishes...

Can be found here . I recommend reading it not only for that particular story (i.e., the evolutionary psychology argument that heterosexua...

This is one of the worst pieces of so-called science reporting I have come across for a very long time. Granted, it's in the Daily Ma...

We are losing, Atrios points out . Because Bill O'Reilly on Fox News stated that his side is winning the war on Christmas. If you do...

Echidne's note: Earlier parts of this series can be found here: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 , Part 7 , Part ...

Has this ever happened to you? You start a browser you use all the time or Google a term just as you did yesterday or log into your e-mail...

The Catholic Bishops. The guys who don't want women to have any control over their reproductive destinies. Those guys. Here's wh...

Margery Allingham's The Fashion in Shrouds was first published in the UK in 1938. I bought it because I had never read it and because...

This is an Hermes scarf depicting the flora and fauna of Texas. I wore it yesterday like a cape so that everyone could feast their eyes on t...

It explains that Republican argument about all those people who are not paying federal income taxes (47% of all tax-payers) at all and how...