ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

If you're a woman -- and you must be, or you'd be bowhunting or watching porn instead of reading this blog -- you've probably sp...

The traditions about how to raise children are different : A 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labor t...

The New York Times writes today about when children are old enough to walk to school unattended. Note that this article appears in FASHIO...

This was taken by David Lubin, M.D.

Chloe, my sister's St. Bernard, is scared of lightning. During storms, she climbs into the tub, where she seems to feel safe. I, too, ha...

"Who is NED and why does everyone want a nice slow dance with him?" asks EyesOnThePrize , a nonprofit that provides gyn cancer sup...

My apologies for the title of this post, but that's what this is : A California lawmaker who resigned after he was caught on tape braggi...

Berlusconi is such a clown that it's sometimes hard to take him seriously. But he's a man of great power in Italy, and so his prono...

Obama's speech was full of references to bipartisanship, though he didn't use that exact term. I sat there, squirming, every time I...

1. Would you like to participate in a study that looks at attitudes concerning mothers and feminism? If so, check the study and its requir...

I ended up biting my scales off and slithering nervously around the Snakepit Inc., trying to understand why I couldn't just sit down and...

The political version: The one with the gold is the one who rules. That's why I'm not very happy to hear that the Supreme Court is ...

Don't we, now? Never mind if it is a completely made-up fight, and never mind if the vast majority of Americans are not affected by it...

Is a guy who likes to joke about his "sexual conquests." He's also a Fambly Values Republican legislator in California and ha...

My deepest apologies on that. I have been busy with goddessing duties. Perhaps tomorrow would suit you as well? There's plenty to be ...

I haven't read it in detail, yet, but what I have skimmed so far suggests that it's more patching of the frock that is the existing ...

1. Politics is not a computer-game. It's not baseball. It's not football. To win at any cost in politics usually means that you ...

That is of course shorthand for who the dominator in the family might be. But in Sudan it's a real issue : A Sudanese woman who wore pa...

Which is a joke about the fact that today the United States has a public holiday called Labor Day (not in honor of birthing women, by the wa...

Mary, a friend since childhood, sings lead vocals for the band Merry and the Mood Swings . She is towering above the band members on the CD ...