ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I stand with the 99%. I have a choice, you see. I don’t have to stand with the 99%. I have an advanced degree, make a low six-figure...

Is well worth reading : But it’s worth stepping back to look at the larger picture, namely the abject failure of an economic doctrine — a ...

Television shows seem to love the sixties and seventies right now, with the retro-sexism and all the vintage trimmings. Those shows can be...

A city bus rented out to a private bus company requires that women sit in the back of the bus: On the morning of October 12, Melissa Franc...

So we are being told in a USAToday article about the 45th anniversary of some type of a feminist thingummybob (well The National Organiza...

Watch this video. It tells us that many large firms in Illinois now get to keep either half of the state income tax their employees pay (...

It is unclear whether women will be worse off or not under the new system: Egypt is preparing for its first democratic elections this aut...

Remember the Nazgûl of Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker? He is now making it easier for disgruntled people to kill politicians and any...

The Personhood Amendments are a new tool in the forced-birthers arsenal. This time the state of Mississippi looks to pass a constitutional...

Bring out the popcorn. This is such a fun one to watch. Rick Perry, yet another wingnut candidate for the presidency of the most powerful...

You may have read the New York Times article about rape in Norway : Norway vies with its Nordic neighbors for the title of most gender-eg...

That's the positive take on all the slurwords that are used to describe feminists. You all know that I'm a feminazi, for instance ...

Just to contrast with the post below about the plights of the rich: Fourteen months ago, Aurora resident Prentiss Bailey was going about h...

An ill-omened name for a house, Versailles. But it's the one Jacqueline and David Siegel chose for their 90,000-square-foot house. I...

This is a heart-breaking story: When Shivaji Pisar's third child was born, yet another daughter, his parents insisted on naming her N...

I expected that to be the case: When Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, the chairman of the Transitional National Council, pronounced the end of the upr...

Jared Bernstein gives us a graph which shows how Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan would change tax liabilities. It's a stunner, and y...

Echidne's note: Earlier parts of this series can be found here: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 , Part 7 , Part ...

Nakke speaks Finnish. A rush transcript: He begins by counting "two, four, half of six". He then says "good boy Nakke w...

A direct quote from this Republican contender for the presidency of the United States of America: “I do not think abortion should be lega...