ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Amanda has written a fascinating post on women's desire. That she wrote it in the context of one of those link-bait* stories at Femai...

Thanks to QL and Atrios for the heads up. M ichigan State Senator, Bruce Caswell has introduced a bill that would mandate foster children c...

Would there be any harm to our freedom, our liberties, our lives from this terrible regime of the truth? Note: I've decided to repost ...

Well, Krugman doesn't say that. I do. But what Krugman says does relate to that loaf of bread: Earlier this week, The Times reported...

The Guttmacher Institute tells us that forced-birthers have been very busy on the state level: To date, legislators have introduced 916 m...

The New York Times quote in my previous post is, alas, no more : Second, the much-talked about birther passage from the Times’ polling p...

One of them is most certainly this : Sean Hannity of Fox News will host a special report tomorrow night on --- taram-pam-pam --- media bia...

I strongly recommend Nancy Goldstein's article "Getting Away with Murder on Long Island." She sets the stage: "I also...

Ever wonder what effect all the new state-level forced-birth laws will have? The ones that conservative state governments are busily creat...

Because it is the month Americans had to do their taxes (the cruelest month of all), let us find how some giant corporations fare as tax pa...

Grete Waitz has died at the age of 57, far too young. Her importance for women's long-distance running would be hard to exaggerate: ...

I read Kaminer's article on the Yale sexual harassment case some time ago and itched to write a long, long, loooong post on it. She m...

This headline was Usa Today's way of telling us about problems with a plane carrying Michelle Obama: Jet carrying first lady aborts...

This is priceless and such fun: Dove recently unveiled its latest campaign, and it hinges on the idea that your armpits are ugly. Dove Ult...

It is hard work, especially if one has worked through the weekend. That "one" is Echidne who is very tired and whose special cre...

Via Yglesias, I won't read the original because I still have to write and feel cheerful for a while longer. Yglesias quotes her on th...

My post on mining is all about clarifying the concept that women just wanna be comfy and safe and secure and that is why they don't pi...

I'm sure you have heard the argument "explaining" the gender gap in wages as simply a consequence of women refusing to work i...

Another fun one! I came upon it in the context of computer games where the role of women is to be the victims, to be kidnapped and slapped...

T here is a major crisis in the field of Evolutionary Psychology promulgated by one of the founders of it -- or as he'd probably have i...