ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Kathryn Jean Lopez weeps for the vanished glory of the Global Gag Rule: The policy presented overseas health organizations with a choice: T...

Dedicated to liberal religious leftists who should stop putting up with this stuff. T he criticism of pop materialism I posted here two week...

                     There is tremendous pressure on women to shop and spend, to be attractive and fashionable. I would like to say that I h...

       Fido (a k a the Very Big Striped Cat ) and Bear look outside in this photo taken before Fido got adopted. A couple with a big home an...

        Nothing says feminism to me like photos of bound women.         The latest Bitch has a review of “Playing” by Melanie Abrams. The ...

Talking Points Memo reports that the family planning funds stripped from the stimulus package (cue silly frat boy giggles here) will be put...

Because my muse (he of the safety-pin pierced lips and smoky eyes) has gone cavorting again. Instead, I listen to Laura Nyro: Good writing ...

This is something all of you did, you know, you who worked the grassroots, you who wrote to your Congress critters, you who cared and argued...

What could be more American? Sadly, recently this might be : The Georgia food plant that federal investigators say knowingly shipped contam...

Can be found here . They show who voted for the stimulus package and who didn't. Astonishingly enough, cutting family planning from th...

In a debate with Salon's Joan Walsh. Chris Matthews is supposed to moderate, you know. In short, Armey tells that he's glad not to ...

I really don't like the process of politics or the process of how people game with words in politics. Both of those make me want to kic...

This attempt to bring back the Global Gag Rule in the Senate: At 12:40pm EST today the U.S. Senate voted 60-37 against the Martinez (R-FL) ...

John Updike, who died yesterday , was the topic of a radio interview I heard. The interviewer asked a critic about Updike's misogyny an...

This is a book written by Siddharth Kara, a former investment banker who is now active in the anti-slavery movement. The book looks at hu...

If you have followed the political debate on the new stimulation bill you know that Republican leader John Boehner (heh) expressed his pa...

A good example of that is this study about child neglect and breast feeding: Breast-feeding has well-documented benefits. Studies have show...

I knitted these socks for someone who takes a very large shoe size and thus had never been able to find striped woolen socks ready made.

A s the media start the lie machine going, that President Obama has broken his pledge to reach out to Republicans, the Republicans in the Se...

A long article by Daniel Bergner , evocatively entitled "What do women want?," details the research of female sexologists who hope...