ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Patricia Lee Sharpe of the excellent blog WhirledView catches this obnoxious quote from Humane Society President Wayne Pacelle: “We aren’t ...

I've been thinking lately about the form that architecture takes in an economy based on land speculation rather than, say, industrial pr...

Offered without comment : Some Web sites and conservative Christians have tried to argue that Obama could be the foretold Antichrist. In Aug...

D an Payne in this morning’s Boston Globe has stolen my thunder in his campaign warp up, no matter how it turns out this election is the na...

Does that look scary? In any case, today's deep thought is about credit cards and the weird flip-flopping the credit card industry has...

You might have read my last plea, last week, with a very similar title. If not, I'm going to direct you here and ask that you go read ...

       At the last minute, I got a ticket out of the country. Not only do I get to escape the wall-to-wall political ads, but I also don...

"Save The Country" by Laura Nyro. Yes, I've posted it before, too. And Tracy Chapman: And Johnny Nash with "I Can See Cl...

This is the sixth post in my "back-to-basics" series about why I became a feminist and why feminism is still needed. I'm not ...

If you missed it you should watch it. It's funny. Alternatively, you can watch the video here .

My embroidery called "Choices". The fifth post in this series about why feminism still matters. The earlier ones are: 1. The Righ...

This picture is about volunteers in Costa Rica (click to see the baby). They have worked a month to help an endangered turtle species to ge...

HoneyBearKelly found this touching video about a volunteer in the Obama campaign.

I think some Wensleydale would hit the spot right now. Or possibly a nice farmhouse cheese rolled in cracked black peppers. The whine I c...

The Republican Party appears to be heading towards some internal power struggles, as discussed in these two pieces . Reading them reminded...

The Washington Post has an interesting article on Rwanda: On a continent that has been dominated by the rule of men, this tiny East Africa...

The FBI and the police have rescued a further 47 children from pimps. Here in the USA : "This is organized crime, these people are mov...

I haven't written much about the corruption scandals which have pestered mostly Republicans recently, but it's worth pointing out th...

This is the fourth post in my series about why feminism is still needed and why I am a feminist. It's useful to point out that we have ...

This is a terrible article about divorce and its possible correlation with recessions. It pulls out every single old stereotype, sweeps to...