ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

So the story is all over the Innertubes here about the Texas Board of Education "advisory" committee which proposes to modify the...

My friend Kathi sent me this photo of her grandbunnies, BamBam (with the hat) and Mugu. An employee of Red Door Animal Shelter in Chicago ...

Two female zookeepers had just finished tossing chunks of meat to three young lions as a man and woman watched. The man asked the zookeeper...

Did you read this story about how doctors tell their patients that they are going to die ? A few rambling thoughts .... But first, some back...

You've probably already seen it, but there's a v interesting article in the NYT about how microloans -- given to women -- can impro...

Is there a feminist poem that speaks to you?

Women's Campaign Forum creates an online tool you can use to suggest possible candidates to run for office: She Should Run . /via Matt ...

Little safe haven for sexually assaulted LGBTQ victims University of Oregon study finds barriers to seeking help, even from agencies and law...

I once wrote I sometimes think of the USofA like it's the planet Saturn: Black folks are the ring system, considered part of the planet ...

Little Summer Poem Touching The Subject Of Faith by Mary Oliver Every summer I listen and look under the sun's brass and even into the m...

I know we've discussed it here this past week, but I am still fuming over the coverage of the Secretary of State's trip to the Democ...

If you're in LA, go see Marc Maron , the neurotic brainiac and nerve center of the late great Morning Sedition , at the Upright Citizen...

Another still life: Cat with artwork that had not yet been assembled.

1. Treat us like equals. It will make us like you better. 2. Stop rape. It's not enough for you not to rape women. You need to work to s...

But is it possible to give up Whole Foods ? Is it necessary? The opinion at issue .

Did you have time to take a look at the New Yorker article -- Wilder Women -- that I mentioned the other day ? If so, I came up with the f...

Updated below. Journalist covers other journalists' reaction to Hillary Clinton's "flash of pique" . This is "news...

Thursday will be Mother-Daughter Day. Here is some homework - a New Yorker article about Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilde...

...when the insurance companies begin blaming the doctors ? And yes, that headline, direct from the Department of the Utterly Obvious, reall...