ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

A fter you figure you’ve heard everything everyone’s going to do with Billy Strayhorn’s Lush life, you find Stan Getz and Mary Lou Williams...

Or A TV kiss is not a kiss. by Anthony McCarthy A s if gay men don’t have enough problems now we have a controversy about two gay character...

Billy Boy The Sunday Soldier of the 17th Maine by Jean Mary Flahive* is a novel based on a real story, one I grew up with. Billy was Wi...

Joel Stein gives us a very handy lesson on that in his most recent column, fetchingly called "A little something for the ladies."...

      Do we idealize women in the same way we do men?        Googling “Obama” and “swoon” yields 127,000 hits. Women aren’t the only ones fa...

       In a comment to a previous post, someone suggested it might be better to be a humanist than a feminist, considering the schisms in f...

      While the Goddess is contemplative, I'm obsessed by this primary season. I cannot resist another post on gender and race. Run for ...

Hecate links to this story about Catholic charitable giving recommendations: The Diocese of Little Rock is urging its members not to donate...

About John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton : While presumptive Republican nominee John McCain has consistently received zero-percen...

I woke up to the story about Britain's prince Harry , the third in line for the throne, serving in Afghanistan. The plot of this revela...

I have had a hard time with the cyberspace community in recent weeks. First all those schisms that appeared between the camps of the two De...

He died yesterday at the age of 82. He was my first taste of American conservative thinking and for a while I thought that's what all ...

I always wanted to use that title. What I want your ears for is to listen to this On Point program on gender and the primary political race...

A new Pew study tells us that Americans are changing their religious affiliations fairly often, that the Catholic Church is not shrinking i...

I'm listening to the BBC World tonight. Their series on "all things Russian" talks about the anti-Western feelings of many yo...

Darryl Pearce died suddenly on February 19, 2008. Darryl wrote a blog called Fuming Mucker. He also commented frequently here and on the ...

I've mentioned the proposed Colorado Human Life Amendment before on this blog, but it deserves to be mentioned again, given that Mike Hu...

I don't enjoy really nasty campaigning by politicians. But at least I understand that they may see it as part of their job. Not sure h...

Perhaps we have advanced a little in the last half a century? From jdw on Eschaton threads.

Or at least the price of wheat has gone up in a worrying way: Wheat prices have hit record levels as supplies dwindle, raising concerns abo...