ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

P lease watch this video of Dusty Springfield singing “The Look of Love” with a slide show of photos of female impersonators of the past, b...

A new study says men and women find women's voices more attractive at the time of the month when the women are most fertile. Y...

By John JS (I don't know the name of this beautiful creature): By swampcracker (a courting snowy egret): And the next two are by Doug (...

Doesn't that sound very academic and studied? I'm chiming in to Suzie's earlier post. Imagine that there was a gruesome murder ...

          News releases open a window onto our culture, and sometimes I’d like to toss the writers through it. A friend sent me a sample fro...

      Since 2006, fans of Joss Whedon have raised more than $160,000 for his favorite charity, Equality Now , by showing his movie "Ser...

That was five years ago. My, how time flies when we are having fun. Not. Notice the militarized and sexualized image in that picture. War...

For a few weeks I have been collecting material on the mass rapes in Congo, on the use of war as organized, cold and murderous misogyny, on ...

This day has all sorts of meanings, but one of them has to do with the celebration of spring. The traditional drink in Finland on this day ...

     Thanks to the Rev. Bob for the link to this photo, which he left in the comments. This illustrates one of my points: Males and females ...

I should write a whole script on them, to make them move and tell the stories, but, alas, time refuses to sit still long enough in this weir...

I looked at the notes I have scribbled on my inspiration sheet to see what I might want to write about. The list starts: quantities (damn q...

This is a post trying to spell out some baby ideas I have about a problem I have noticed in political debates. They are very hesitant ideas...

That's another way to describe Hillary Clinton: She is like the character Glenn Close played in Fatal Attraction : NPR's Rudin: ...

I have been reading about the Austrian case of a woman being held a prisoner for over twenty years underground, of being repeatedly raped by...

W e have to save the right of a citizen to cast a vote from the Supreme Court. It’s clear now, the Republicans intend to overturn the Votin...

I have been reading and listening about sex-selection among the Asian immigrant populations in the United States: More boys are being born...

Julie London : Cry Me A River posted by Anthony McCarthy

Ella Fitzgerald gives “ just the facts , ma’am” to Joe Friday. 1955 U nexpected complications, sorry, no more time for writing today. Ant...