ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I am catching up on my New Yorkers , which have been piling up since early January. Yesterday, I finally got to the Ken Auletta piece about...

A number of weeks ago, during a blog discussion of some issue, I don’t remember which one, I made a rash statement that liberal Christian...

Who Was Invited To President Obama's Health Care Summit ?

I missed writing on Gerard Alexander's Washington Post piece , all about the condescending liberals, because I was too busy being conde...

Today, it has rained nonstop. I'm glad to be home from the hospital, sleeping under afghans, next to my Chihuahua.

Don't give up hope -- spring is coming. (by Julie Savell-McCandless)

Neographite is kindly subbing for Suzie. This is the post: Here's what I remember about sex in college (not specifically, now, but meta...

Well, not so fluffy, as this is about my most recent experiment with crust. I made a pear galette (two, in fact), and followed all advice a...

That the piece I summarized below is by the same Charlotte Allen who wrote about us thick-as-a-broad broads in 2008. Do read that one to ...

I got an e-mail today from Donna in which she tells that our Suzie is home from the hospital and doing well. She will have a long recovery ...

What, do you think, is the point of this exercise ?

That is how the MRA sites describe this recession, because the unemployment has hit construction and manufacturing, traditionally male field...

Did you know the old received wisdom about autism and parental age? Apparently it was that older fathers tended to sire more autistic child...

I bet the Weekly Standard pays by word, given the length of Charlotte Allen's piece called "The New Dating Game" . They cert...

i've been trying to make sense of this bit, discussing Obama's speech today : Obama used the example of how Anthem Blue Cross, the ...

Which Michelle Obama will lead . My modest additional proposal: 1. Bring physical education back into schools as an important aspect of ov...

1. I'm a gateway drug to feminism. Discuss. 2. No, even goddesses cannot work through weekends and go without sleep.

but last week, after hearing a male English professor waxing wistfully about how much Catcher in the Rye meant to his development, another ...

That was a fun Super Bowl. The patriarchal Focus on the Family ad was nothing, though of course one is invited to partake of their wise web...

This could also have been subtitled: Poor Women. Too Clever For Their Own Good. I'm a little bit fed up with these kinds of articles ,...