ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

While surfing the Internet I found a comment on my unsexy lefto-feminazi writing style. It was brilliant! I'm like a walking abstinen...

Science is too powerful to allow it to continue to serve corporate and personal self-interest. It's too dangerous when scientists and ...

From CBS News : The GOP budget plan that passed through the House last month aimed to cut funding for a tsunami warning center that issued...

The world feels like it's falling to pieces and I'm up to my neck in work that is very definitely unimportant, but I did want to poi...

" [C]onsiderations of gender relations can seem an irrelevance; the 'tyranny of the urgent' makes gender issues appear a luxury...

M artin Harty, the Republican freshman state legislator from Barrington, New Hampshire has gone on record as being in favor of sending ...

What can bring down the most dangerous man in the world ? A little bit of latex . After police interviewed Ms. W, a report was written that ...

So I got thinking about that frat e-mail which describes women as targets, carefully pointing out that women are not human beings, and then...

In Tennessee : Republicans in the Tennessee Senate wants to drop "labor" from the name of the committee that handles commerce an...

There are two reasons for that. First, those who fund them want to get rid of the unions because corporate labor is cheaper in non-unioniz...

Meet Senator Ryan Paul (R-KY), our new tea-party overlord : Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is upset that the federal government has squelched his ...

This is meant to be a light-hearted post, to sweeten this day which has turned out to be a bitter antidote for yesterday's Internationa...

This is about the alleged gang-rape of an eleven-year old girl in Texas. Remember that an eleven-year-old cannot give legal consent to sex...

Yesterday was International Women's Day. Between the Texas gang rape story and this story out of California , today must be National Hat...

Updated below. Echidne suggested that I share this: This morning I read a story about a rape in the NYT that unfortunately (but, alas, not i...

A new Bloomberg survey has come out about Americans' opinions on the priorities the government should have and on which programs to c...

The International Women's Day celebrations did not all go smoothly : Some women's rights organizers here were hoping to mark Inter...

I have heard lots about this in the recent weeks, mostly from Republicans and aimed at civil servants. An example by governor Corbett of P...

Women in Egypt and Tunisia and other nations have just as much right as the men to remake their governments, to make them responsive, accoun...

I was watching John Stewart interview Diane Ravitch on the current attacks on teachers and especially their unions. She pointed out that ...