ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

A country which makes chocolate chip cookies the size of cow pats can't be all bad. (On the U.S.)

I was taking a nap on a beautiful mountain top when Green Mamba slithered in. Green Mamba is the bane of my life, a pain-in-the-butt sort o...

Christmas has come a little early for the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries. The new Medicare bill left them gifts of 17 billi...

I've been reading The Ancient Near East , edited by James B. Pritchard, 1958. What this book tells us is (1) that swimming is a most...

The big problem with religious fundamentalists is their wishy-washiness. They simply aren't fundamental enough. The average Christian ...

This doesn't apply to goddesses, of course. Who does it apply to, though? Everybody else? Note that the 'you' in this stat...

Today's quote comes from Rose Macaulay: Mystery at Geneva (1923): All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women....

For the insomniacs who like to stay that way I recommend this book: It can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. It was originally publishe...

Imagine yourself as not yet existing (behind the Rawlsian 'veil of ignorance' if you wish). Imagine that you can choose the sex you...

I keep reading that this is the post-feminist era. Feminism is so passe, so seventies. Fashionable people don't wear it anymore. Bu...

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody who celebrates this American holiday. Others can be thankful for the fact that they don't: no need to c...

Fetuses are now called unborn children. I like the logic behind this innovation; from now on I shall call living adults undead corpses. An...

Did I ever mention that retired gods and goddesses may sometimes take human form? Aphrodite has chosen to become an eighty-year old widow l...

The BBC's World Program asked listeners to send in their definitions of a 'terrorist'. The answers were what one expected, rang...

Abstinence is the policy of the current U.S. government, when it comes to social ills such as Aids and teenage pregnancy. I think that it...

I think that I have finally found my dream career. For many years I grieved over the fact that since I was a goddess, they didn't also ...

Cinderella's foot fitted the glass slipper and so she married the prince and lived happily ever on. At least in fairy tale terms. But ...

The Independent Women's Forum (IWF) is one of the girls' auxiliaries to the extreme right wing. They are a feisty lot of gals who s...

Today the BBC interviewed a man who comes from a group demanding that female nudes in art should be more idealized. The female nude in the ...

For those of you who have been asleep for the last hundred years in an enchanted castle surrounded by thorny rosebushes, this is the vicious...