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MAY TRIGGER If you follow American news you will know about this case. It involves allegations of sexual abuse (including rape) of youn...

I recently heard Kim Richey in concert. I cannot get enough of her voice.

The Women's Media Center has nominated 27 women for its Social Media Award. Sadly, Echidne isn't nominated, but you may be intereste...

With some nice cheese: I write too much. It is exhausting, and if I keep ladling stuff out without replenishing it I will end up writing...

You may have read about the Facebook rape page campaign. Its objective was to make Facebook walk its talk on hate speech and such. Here...

You wouldn't think that the way we measure inflation in various price indexes could be used to cut back on federal spending in a way w...

This is really funny : In that clip Mary Matalin, a Republican television face, argues that: There Was A "Grievance Industry...

The Egg-Americans initiative in Mississippi was defeated . My sincere thanks to all who worked very hard to get just that done. The fig...

The Herman Cain sexual harassment accusations dig up all sorts of interesting stuff from the bottom mud of the oceans that R Us. For one e...

I managed to squash almost the whole post into the title! Soon I will be a twitter phenomenon. To add to the title, Newt Gingrich now t...

Via HJ, and found here:

Is this: If you look at the political happenings in the US, the fight could perhaps best be understood as a fight between people who want ...

Remember that concealed-carry thing from the Nazgül state of Wisconsin? The idea was that people would be properly trained and vetted befo...

So asks the Christian Science Monitor when it writes about the Mississippi Egg-Americans Proposition, to be voted on tomorrow. But of c...

From Talking Points Memo: Reading the early comments attached to that YouTube is not exactly recommended but very instructive. Herm...

Several British women writers have decided to tackle the the topic of misogynistic attacks aimed at women who write on the Internet. Helen...

Here he sits on his roost in the kitchen at night. Rough translation: He says "Give me a kiss" and makes smooch sounds. Thi...

It's a most fascinating place, these days, full of what conservatives call social engineering when they are not doing it. But Wisconsi...

You probably have heard of the child discipline techniques of a Texas family court judge William Adams (who sits on child abuse cases), be...

I was reading something I saved earlier for possible blogging, about the scarcity of women at the top of corporate echelons, and came acro...