ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

May good things precede you, follow you and walk beside you. Just made that one up. It's like my sometimes-wish for people who give ...

Mitt Romney is the Republican presidential contender whom the Powers-That-Be want. They want him to win the primaries because the other Re...

A new study found this to be the case. Honest! But more about that later in this post. First, let's look at a few summaries of the f...

I really like this one: It's called The Monster, but whether you are the monster or the fairy/angel depends on the day, as does the q...

This dark week at the brink of time is for rumination. So I have decided. I don't have to put in hooks on my fishing rod to catch you...

Michelle Goldberg introduces four of them to you: Last night, four GOP candidates—Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann and Rick...

This video talks about the pink toys for girls. I can't quite get everything the little girl says but her overall point is extremely v...

Now here's an interesting take on the question whether a divorced woman should be allowed to keep her ex-husband's last name. It...

I was going to write about this article where some in the 1% make an empire-strikes-back statement but Matt Taibbi did the work for me. ...

Remember that we must all now tighten our belts? That austerity policies are the new panacea for an economic depression? Why a further s...

I'm very annoyed by the kind of articles, quite common in the so-called women's sections, where the writing seems to have gone like...

This is a translation (one of many) of a fragment from a Gnostic prayer or poem found at Nag Hammadi in 1945. It may depict the divine fem...

Bradley Manning needs to be a hero so that Julian Assange can be a hero. Assange and his supporters have marketed Manning as a courageous ma...

I never read "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" or saw the Swedish film, nor do I plan to see the remake, which opened Tuesday. I h...

No, this post won't have tips on how to style your hair for holiday parties. Instead, I want to examine how "grooming" describ...

A judge in Nevada rewrote an "egg-as-a-person" initiative to make clear what it means. Here is the rewritten initiative : Inste...

And to fold a fitted sheet. But if you disagree, here's how to do the latter . My approach is to wad it into a ball. It will straig...

Posting will be sparse for the next three days. Because of that thing called life.

A new round of the reverse gender gap arguments! What fun! And just in time for the holidays. This time it's the Old Gray Lady doin...

Katha's review of Christopher Hitchens' work, when it came to his writing on the topic of women* is excellent: So far, most of t...