ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

In America, anti-government conservatives continue to insist on the moral and practical effectiveness of state-administered abstinence educa...

Jeff Jacoby is the latest conservative commentator to discover that the northern hemisphere can get pretty cold in winter: The United State...

R ight-wing media personality Robert Zelnick doesn’t like the Fairness Doctrine and, like all right-wing media personalities are these days...

Laura Nyro (of course) and New York Tendaberry:

I'm giving y'all one last chance to tell me that which I do not know. Then, I'll find some other critter photos.  ETA: ArtHermit...

           I like a lot of the activities labeled "foreplay." But we need to get rid of the term itself, which is too vague and de...

The Catholic Church is getting its knickers in a twist over an abortion: A Brazilian archbishop says all those who helped a child rape vict...

This report on a medical study about heart disease and depression does notice, at the very end, that the findings may not apply to women gi...

This health care reform attempt : A White House forum on healthcare started on Thursday and included a range of players, from health policy...

This is a trivial story . Nobody is going to ban the Barbie doll. Neither is anyone going to make a doll that has hot flashes, even though...

Now all this is quite funny: Vanity Fair is well known for putting on its covers pictures of nudish women. I notice that every time I wal...

I think I have posted this fragment before. It's an attempt to address the objectification of women (and other living things, perhaps) ...

I happened to catch this On Point radio program on the question of cyber-harassment. Listening to the program is truly an ear-opening expe...

Molly Kool died at the age of 93 : A native of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, Ms. Kool was known familiarly throughout her life as ...

All of those are supposed to get better when beaten. It's an old saying, and many such old sayings are ways to validate the practice of...

Paul Krugman discusses one theory for the Great Crash of 2009: If you want to know where the global crisis came from, then, think of it thi...

A Christian fundamentalist website which collects donations for vasectomy reversals really shouldn't call itself Blessed Arrows. I kno...

A study looked at that question by using zip codes and information on paid pornography. You should read through it, just to note the socio...

CPAC stands for the Conservative Political Action Conference . I have been watching the videos of the major speakers there and had to lie d...

That would be the one AIG is going to report for its last quarter: 62 billion smackers! AIG is too big not to be saved, though. It reminds ...