ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Political geeks live too much in their heads, staring far into the cyberspace or having their livers riot in anger or in the glory of succes...

D uty calls to lend my hand to doing what I was certain was going to have to be done when it was put on the legislative agenda. I’ve got to...

The title of this poem carries two meanings: comprehension and contract. As a feminist, I've been concerned with how we care for people ...

         As Mother’s Day approaches, I want to share a snippet that I wrote a decade ago about my mother. She had surgery for a benign, but ...

A lot of people are contemptuous of seagulls, just as they are of pigeons, considering them a nuisance. Many people love animals that are wi...

It's not all bad but it's all bad poetry, if you get my meaning. I have lots of fun with it. Not sure if any of that comes across....

Frank Luntz is the man responsible for "ownership society" , "death taxes" and "tax relief"; all terms which g...

I can think of lots of good things to do in honor of this coming Sunday, but here's one great idea: To donate diapers and other necess...

Via Think Progress : Transcript: BLITZER: You remember, your President — President Bush — he did find a woman, Harriet Miers, to be his nomi...

I knew this was coming when I first heard of Souter's retirement from the bench: The assumption that a woman couldn't possibly be t...

At least I was surprised to learn that Carol Ann Duffy is Britain's first female poet laureate. What with us girls being so good with ...

Marilyn French died on Saturday at the age of 79. The Washington Post obituary calls her a controversial feminist author: Marilyn French...

The Daily Beast (via feministe ) tells us that only thin women should be on the SCOTUS: Consider the two women widely considered the frontr...

This study about possible relationships between racism and mental health is an interesting one. It has the usual problem of one-shot studi...

I t’s not the weekend, and I apologize, but I just had to post this while it was fresh. O n NPR's Morning Edition today, in Tom Gjelten...

This is a tragicomic piece of news: Gov. Rick Perry has accepted nearly $5 million in political campaign donations from people he appointed...

Naomi Wolf (the author of The Beauty Myth ) reviews Jennifer Scanlon's biography of Helen Gurley Brown in the Washington Post and take...

You know Leonard Cohen's " First We Take Manhattan? " The first three lines of the song: They sentenced me to twenty years of...

The husband of singer Ayman Udas came home (from getting some milk) to find his wife of ten days shot to death. He believes that she was ki...

The Missouri house has passed a law stating that "no pharmacy can be required to perform, assist, recommend, refer to , or participat...