ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I t's been two weeks now since the sliming of a fine woman by Andrew Breitbart, FOX and the rest of the Republican lie machine, expose...

You've got to see this video from the Story of Stuff Project. I'm having trouble embedding it. Nena Baker gives some background in...

When I read the news about the booby-loving middle-schooler (see my post 7/9/10 ), I had never heard of the Keep-a-Breast Foundation , which...

I introduced Margaret's Sammy last week. Here she is, just hanging out, with the two older cats, Peanut and Punkin, who seem to be sayin...

Excellent cleaning music. Obviously good for other things, too, but this is what I dust to. Every ten years or so. Django Rheinhardt: ...

(This is a reprint from here . I believe the ideas I discuss in it are important enough to pardon the stilted language.) Being a journalist...

Another Nina Simone which links directly to something in me deeper than my ears. Sinnerman.

Not quite, but I went into my archives to gather together a few posts about the Marriage Panic of Whatever Year you might want to look at. ...

Mississippi Fred McDowell and "Goin Down to the River."

This is a post I never quite completed. It belongs to my feminism series but I couldn't maintain the tone and approach of that series a...

This is a Finnish rock song from the 1970s, I think. I like it because it is in Finnish and because the tune is catchy and though the words...

This is the last post in my feminism series, as it exists today, though I am going to add a half-finished post to the series tomorrow.

Neal Gabler has diagnosed the problems with the Obama administration as coming from his attachment to Ivy league culture, in pretty much th...

Note: I'm still blogging from a system I'm not familiar with, I have no idea why I can't attach a title to that piece below, b...

Kevin Lewis, the author of the Boston Globe "Uncommon Knowledge" derived from recent publications in the social science journals,...

I know I've been hard on Harvard the past few months, I've heard a few people think I should stop beating up on them and now when th...

What a week to be without a computer to call my own! The first thing to learn from the sliming, abandonment and subsequent vindication and r...

Well, I perform gender in the divine world. But I gave a stab at trying it in the human world, too, here .

A purple guitar. A dozen cookies. An original T-shirt from the 1977 National Women’s Conference. An elegant booklet containing the poem Maya...

My church had an online auction, and I decided to go a little wild and bid on a balloon ride. It should be interesting, I thought, unless I ...