ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

" H ow come Jack DeCoster keeps getting away with it," a relatively well informed person asked me this morning. DeCoster is inf...

I 've loved Eva Sollberger's Stuck In Vermont YouTubes for a couple of months and I've loved Allison Bechdel's Dykes To Wa...

No discussion of women in comics would be complete without a mention of the recent reboot of “Wonder Woman.” In an introduction, Lynda Cart...

Skim a list of syndicated comic strips , and you'll see that men write the great majority. Thus, it isn't surprising that women appe...

Rebecca Zapen performed at my church last week, reminding me how great it is to hear local artists in a small venue. A classically trained ...

Opinions differ, as they say these days in the media. But survey respondents aren't allowed to use that excuse, sadly. So we have to t...

Interesting to read this piece on women in camps in Pakistan and then this piece on the correct way to bring up a Quiverfull daughter, one...

This august body tells us silly gurlz that it's our own fault if we earn less. Honest. They know the causes of the gender gap better t...

For that term alone this Guardian article is worth reading. Also because it's about time that scientists wake up and start doing the ...

The elephant being sexism, of course. A certain kind of sexism, a bit like ingrown toe nails, mostly hidden inside shoes, is still an accep...

So Laura Schlessinger (Dr. Laura!) is calling it quits : She is a conservative talk-show host whose fame is based on her looong career of gi...

Do teachers still assign writing topics like that? Did they ever? How does one answer a question like that honestly? I suppose one is not t...

And I have missed you! I don't have anything exciting to say right now (except that I don't recommend twelve-hour travel bouts), th...

I do not regret this series which has been about music which speaks to me in other than intellectual ways. Hope that you enjoyed some of it...

This is a re-posting. The original link to the wingnut cartoon no longer works so I removed it. A wingnut cartoon adventure story (read: in...

This is a Finnish poem by Eino Leino set to music. The poem is familiar to most every Finn. It's a beautiful use of summer as the meta...

(I have posted this twice before but I like it. It's an environmental lament or perhaps a certain type of conservatism cropping up in m...

Abbey Lincoln Straight Ahead Abbey Lincoln was a great singer and actor, one whose greatness came from her personal integrity and sense of ...

T he automatic, programmed, resort to citing “The Founding Fathers” as if the words, real and invented, were infallible writ, is ubiquitous...

Abbey Lincoln, rest in peace. Throw It Away