ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Note: I'm pretty sick so I can't write today. Here's a piece I wrote a couple of years ago but, unfortunately, it's as ti...

1. Parrot: Yes, she/he has grown. 2. I think I'm going to become either an elf or an orc. That way none of that misogynistic cra...

The Republican proposal for budget cuts makes for fun reading. The proposals would save very little money but would have the benefit of cu...

The UK Daily Mail is a treasure trove of the 1950s values about gender! It has a section called Femail where women lecture other women ab...

Pay careful attention, my sweet readers. A new study has found out that marital happiness depends on the wife's waistline ! Or, rathe...

I do. I must have hated them far back in that murky mist of beginnings, because one of my earliest memories is having to get rid of this ...

Sarah Blustain has written an interesting article about the anti-abortion work of Harold Cassidy, the lawyer who defended Mary Beth Whiteh...

That would be the strong anti-trust arm of the government in the olden days . The antitrust division still exists , of course, but the c...

I have no desire to be the one who writes about every weird study that comes out of the mills of Mordor. Please send me some wonderful new...

Is a lonely old age. That's my summary of a new book: Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate and Think About Marryi...

A CBS news poll asks its respondents for advice on how to reduce the federal deficit, but the advice isn't that great. For example, ...

Did congresswoman Giffords' gender play a role in the way Loughner selected his victims? Some suggestions that it might be so : Fede...

Some days all the topics I have lined up give me the same reaction, a desire to scratch my eyes out or to get my stomach lined with stainle...

Others say the things that should be said on this day so much better than I do, but I checked to see what I had written in the past. Some ...

N ot being a mother I'm sort of at a disadvantage to discuss the current rage over Amy Chua's "Chinese parenting" methods...

R eading Tom Keane's odd encomium for automation driven unemployment in yesterday's Boston Globe, the rub was held for the very en...

Cows & Cows & Cows

T he corporate media consensus on Jared Lochner is that he was merely a crazy person who had some unspecified fixation on Congresswoman Giff...

A sick friend called me to play a funeral for her. Not her funeral. Got to go over the music, so I'll be out this morning.

Here's a fun story for you: A bar in suburban Roselle could end up in a legal battle after forcing a woman to leave because she was ei...