ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

You may have noticed that I like using reversals to make a point about sexism. Here's a comment from the Telegraph thread: Once I to...

Just to demonstrate the audience for the kind of Mars/Venus study I discussed below I read the UK Telegraph 's (somewhat erroneous) su...

So tells a new study about gendered personality differences: Men and women have large differences in personality, according to a new stud...

It's a slogan I hear again in these presidential campaigns. But there are also plans to reduce the military budget: Defense Secretar...

The story about Santorum's comments ( here ) gets more interesting. My summary of what he seems to be saying is this: "..bottom ...

A short summary of the history of pink as the color for girls: The use of pink as distinctive of girls can be dated back at least to 186...

You know how people say that someone in the Republican Party is running or speaking just to pull the conversation more to the right? Or mo...

Thanks for all the great conversations and debates and so on. I was thinking today (while shopping for groceries) how much less interestin...

Rick Santorum last October : As he told CaffeinatedThoughts.com editor Shane Vander Hart in October, “One of the things I will talk about,...

Thank you for your company during the last year. Thank you for your donations in the last week. They came as wonderful surprises as my be...

Matt Stoller has written a piece called "Why Ron Paul Challenges Liberals." The beginning and also the summary of Stoller's...

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 ...

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...