ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I hereby provide mammaries. Not exactly human, mind you, although the similarity is remarkable. But the figure depicted is a "pixie....

A Bloomberg article , reporting on the illegal videotaping of ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews naked, asks "whether Andrews might have un...

There've been so many interesting posts that I've hesitated to jump in, but here, sans dirty pictures (because echidne is a classy G...

Midsummer is a time when we should be doing happy jolly recreational things (provided we have jobs to vacation from, and jobs that have vaca...

Here are some weekend suggestions. See In the Loop . I saw it last night and laughed like crazy (even though a bunch of B-List state depar...

Just in case there was any question, it remains A-okay to hurl literally any slur at Hillary Clinton , especially if you're an old media...

There's no place better to sunbathe than the roof of a white car in Florida, or so says Missy, the striped auxiliary cat.

Queen for a Day is a program in which beauty queens go to hospitals to give their tiaras to girls with cancer. The girls dress up and get ha...

There's more to come on I Don't , but in the interim ... Two Christmases past, a friend gave me a two-year subscription to Time Out ...

Continuing to make my way through I Don't ... Between the eras of Saints Paul and Augustine, men and women were apparently thought to l...

When I mentioned that I am reading I Don't: A Contrarian History of Marriage , I neglected to say that I discovered something astonishi...

Hi. I'm Earl Dunovant...never mind the brand name in the title, everyone who reads my site knows who I am. I don't expect you good f...

Tomorrow, Obama is scheduled to have a beer at the White House with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the man who arrested him, Sg...

Hello, and thank you, Echidne, for the welcome and the opportunity to contribute to your blog. While you're gone, I'll be reading (...

From my e-mail: Top stories in the Summer Ms.: -COVER STORY - "CYBERHOOD IS POWERFUL"- Ms. pays tribute to feminist mommybloggers ...

Starts today. I'm going to be gone for four weeks, exactly, give or take a few posts each week. In the meantime, you will be well care...

I'm listening to this program on the local public radio. It's all about whether marriage is dying or not, whether it should or not...

That all the attention paid to the "birther movement" of the wingnuts is not only silly but very boring. I understand the rules o...

You probably know Katha Pollitt best for her often-humorous but always-wonderful political columns in the Nation magazine or the collection...

I find this hilarious. The song is in Finnish, but here's a rough translation of the first few verses: The mouths of girls have long wa...