ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

The New York Times this week reports on a phenomenon that you’ve likely experienced if you take more than a couple of prescription drugs,...

You probably did not pay much attention to the Credit Card Act of 2009. In any case, it was full of goodies for the consumers, including ...

I finally got Blue Valentine from Netflix (and by the way, I am sticking with the DVD plan; not enough selection for streaming only, but I ...

The California Milk Processor Board and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners have created a new ad campaign to get "somebody" to dr...

A new documentary: Gloria: In Her Own Words . Unfortunately, no trailer available yet. First airdate is August 15th. I can't think of an...

This would be the number of young women and girls who did well in Google's first science fair: Shree Bose, age 17, from Fort Worth, T...

The quarterfinal soccer game between the U.S. and Brazilian women's teams. It was an exciting game and it was taken seriously as a ga...

If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human ...

As a follow-up to Saturday's post about Betty Ford , here is an interesting opinion about Ford from yesterday's NYT by Nixonland a...

Is this article by James Galbraith . It is clearly written and offers a point of view which is rare in the mainstream media. Apropos of ...

Via Media Matters: I will give you only the first example from that video: Greg Gutfeld Twice Compared Government Spending With ...

So I am irked. Orrin Hatch thinks that the rich pay too large a share of the federal income taxes in this country: Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-U...

It would be easier to write a post if one didn't have to do research first, sigh, just as it's easier to give strong opinions witho...

You probably have heard about it. It's a vow to go along with a rather extremest traditional-patriarchal-marriage guys in Iowa, and Ba...

This is a good article as the starting point of a discussion about the invisible unemployed, about the way we all suddenly worry about gov...

Two weekends ago, on one of those glittery bright, hot mornings that New Mexico is known for, I drove up to Los Alamos to have breakfast w...

( Echidne's note: Earlier parts of this series can be found here: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , part 5 and part 6 . ) Julia...

Stop whining! That's what the famous evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins told the women of America, pretty much. Here...