ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

The discussion we had here about making omelets made all the difference in the world! My omelets are now famous everywhere! Moist, yet fir...

Y esterday in a general discussion of the weeks news on Callie Crossley’s show on February 5, she and her guests mentioned that Miley Cyru...

A week or so ago I wrote about the fetishization of Haitian orphans ( everyone wants one! they’re so darling, with that sweet little vulnera...

To the tune of "Three Blind Mice ."

I'll be taking a break from blogging as I relax in the hospital with my PCA . I've scheduled some Friday critter photos, but I doubt...

From the Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania ... to remind you of spring. (by Julie Savell-McCandless)

The Department of Defense will make the Plan B pill available at all its hospitals and clinics. Still, I find this funny: While most medi...

What is very hard about blogging is trying to cover too many topics too fast. I should specialize more and write less but then the topic of...

She says it all , even things I didn't dare, such as that last bit about the woman in the dirndl.

I'm reading Jeff Sharlet's The Family. The Secret Fundamentalism At The Heart Of American Power . . It links nicely with the news ...

Gertrude Stein's birthday was yesterday. She was an interesting writer, no doubt about that. Her experiments with language are well w...

I wrote a stump post on the general topic of women's roles within the Super Bowl framing but Jaclyn takes it much further and gives ma...

This is funny (in the sense of weird/peculiar): Slapping Republicans with one hand, extending olive branches with the other, President Bara...

It did not start too optimistic, because I read about the three American troops killed in Pakistan: The troops were traveling to attend the...

The National Post , a conservative newspaper, posted a most hilarious editorial a few days ago. It's about the death of Women's Stu...

This is another bit of the kind of popularization we wimminz are exposed to: A new study from the Universities of St. Andrews and of Edinbu...

I got a kind e-mail pointing out my spelling error about "grizzly" photos of women bleeding to death from coat-hanger abortions. ...

I once wrote that abstinence is a wonderful principle. All wingnuts should follow it life-long. That way we'd get a functioning countr...

This happens in blogging a lot: Some days I have nothing to write about, other days there's far too much material. Today has been one ...

A funny thing happened : More than 500 people stormed the state Capitol this morning in support of a bill they say will protect young girls ...