ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

          Trigger warning.           Paul Little is on trial in Tampa for obscenity. The St. Petersburg Times explains :           Little, ...

A Finnish guy singing about being messed up. Not from rock-n-roll, not from booze, but from you. Love, yanno.

              I was reading a thread over at Shakesville , and I realized: I don’t have to keep commenting. I’ ve got my own blog! I’m...

         Equality Now has a new action aimed at the trafficking and prostitution of women in India. The action is aimed at the passage of l...

          I’ ve posted recently on Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the 15 th Amendment. The politics of the abolition and...

I write poetry, I've studied poetry, but the only poem I can recite from memory is: The Purist by Ogden Nash I give you now Professor Tw...

This is quite the funny story. Michelle Malkin was upset by an ad Rachael Ray did for Dunkin Donuts, this one: Notice the scarf Ray is wear...

You may have heard about that draft for an international treaty about banning the use of cluster bombs, the one which 111 nations have appro...

It can be tricky for atheists in the U.S. military, at least according to Army Specialist Jeremy Hall : Army Spc. Jeremy Hall did two tours...

And "B" is for The Bitches Who Have It. This I have learned from the political pundits in the media. Nevertheless, the reason wh...

Hendrik Hertzberg has written a piece about what a good guy Chris Matthews is. Digby begs to differ , and so do I in one sense: It seems ...

Bathrooms. That's probably what comes to your mind if you think about where the sexes are segregated in this country. Bathrooms and ph...

This has been suggested. I shiver and feel slightly nauseous when I hear that or when I read the glowing arguments supporting Webb: He...

This NPR story about the women in Basra, Iraq. Their freedoms have increased now that the Iraqi military is in control of the city, but mo...

Yes, we do. We hates the woman celebrities, at least in the U.K .: In a survey this week, by Marketing magazine the respondents' top fi...

This is something I wrote for Paxamericana earlier. It seems appropriate for Memorial Day. He loved horses. When the enemy approached and...

I once wrote a mildly funny post on this breed of celebrities. But Daniel Drezner takes them more seriously (click on the document he lin...

Silent thunder.

... the Geena Davis Institute of Gender in Media ... partnered with USC's Annenberg School of Communications to undertake the largest...

Of the sexism that seems to be all the rage among the political pundits these days? If not, watch some more below. If you no longer need c...