ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

T he Olympic gold medal winner and professional boxer, Sugar Ray Leonard has written a memoir in which he says he was the victim of a gay s...

Remember the billboard campaign aimed against African-American women? The same campaign is now used against Latinas : I just wrote about...

A man with a mission, he is, running for president and all. One of his messages is this: SANTORUM: When I was leading the charge on part...

For the purposes of this post, the term "media" will not be limited to only newspapers and sites of that sort but will also cover...

The forced birthers are changing their message. No longer are they trying to ban abortion just for the benefit of the silly women who don...

(This is going to be the weakest of the posts, mostly because I have so little patience with politics as games and warfare. The comments a...

Here is something that gets no attention because of the Wienergate: House Republicans on Friday introduced legislation that would allow w...

As I mentioned at the end of my first post in this series, the crucial question in the Wienergate for a feminist is certainly about the wom...

As Lewis Carroll wrote: “"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wa...

ADDED LATER: It turns out that all this was a scam by a married American man who lives in Scotland. My apologies for reporting on it. ...

They might be of interest here, too. The first one is about deep questions, such as whether ketchup is a vegetable or a major continent. ...

This is a draft for a short story I wrote some years ago. You might enjoy it at the peony time of the year. Or not, given that it's a...

At least according to this article : JEDDAH: Wajnat Al-Rahbini, a Saudi actress who was arrested after driving her car Saturday along Jawa...

( Echidne's note: Part One of the series is here , Part Two here . ) The Middle Ages are generally considered to be the fifth until t...

H ave you ever wondered why you never see female impersonators dressed in sensible shoes and regular clothes? Probably not. Female impe...

Y et another AIDS anniversary , yet another year when there are no condom ads on American TV as they explicitly talk about geezers' ere...

W hile Republicans around the country are making laws which really end legal abortion in state after state, Republicans in Washington are v...

In France, women are protesting sexism . The Strauss-Kahn case has served as a lightning rod. On the other hand, in Malaysia the police ...

That's the opinion of the Nobel-price winning author V.S. Naipaul on women writers: Nobel-prize winning author V.S. Naipaul claims th...