ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Every year, medical school hopefuls sit down to endure a grinding six-hour hazing ritual known as the MCAT: the Medical College Admission ...

Towards effective liberalism, 1. I n the past month or so I've developed a new pet peeve, one which can make me grit my teeth. I'...

For those of you who have read Tove Jansson 's Moomin books or heard of them. This is a song called "Oh, tiny party-goer," a...

While reading this and other articles on the Medicare fights I suddenly realized that the conservatives' hankering over some mythical ...

Everyone say "Takei" Today posted by Anthony McCarthy

Fun and games, again, about powerful men and their sexual urges. An article in the Time magazine begins with the usual argument that me...

This is a funny take on the end of the world, scheduled for May 21st, 2011. Though strictly speaking the hell fires (why is hell seen as...

Atrios refers to this post about the mass discipline of the Republicans: Most clear-eyed political observers thought that Newt Gingrich...

It is about the "new" breed of dude editors ! A snippet: Just a night of dudes being dudes, bros being bros, but there’s a lot...

I waited too long to post on this topic . By the time I felt ready to do so, the articles and blog posts which had appeared somehow drai...

Reading the obituaries, once again , I see that the playwright Pam Gems died last Friday. (Isn't "Pam Gems" an excellent name...

Some signs are too much , even for the forced-birthers: Right to Life New Mexico was attempting Monday to have an endorsement removed fro...

I have an older post to remind you. Now Yale University has acted : A prestigious Yale fraternity that counts both Bush presidents amon...

Strauss-Kahn is the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and was expected to be a candidate in France's next presidential ele...

There he goes again, this time with a Psychology Today blog post which argues that black women, on average, are uglier than other women. ...

Well, the Finnish men's ice-hockey team are now the world champions . That the victory was against Sweden is especially sweet bec...

In Saudi Arabia : A Saudi mother said Sunday she defied a ban on women drivers in the ultra-conservative kingdom by getting behind the whe...

It'd be a lot easier listening to Maureen Dowd's keening and wailing over sexism and regression in the fall TV lineup if she hadn...

Remember when you were a kid and all the pronouns in the textbook were "He" and "Him"? Well, that is not the case anymo...

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the slow-motion tragedy unfolding in southern Louisiana – the one that is poised to flood out some 25,000...