ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I view Salon lawyer/blogger Glenn Greenwald the way I do Ron Paul: They have some interesting views, but I don't want to enhance their c...

A video of a women's volleyball game in China. Do watch it, even if you don't like volleyball.

About the morality police : Saudi Arabia's king replaced the hard-line chief of the country's morality police with a more liberal ...

That's the question Arthur Brisbane, the New York Times public editor posed today. It has to do with the responsibilities reporters...

The rights to religious freedom often clash with various types of human rights. The most obvious example of this in the United States is W...

I asked the awesome stats wizard Andrew Gelman to comment on the Mars/Venus study and he was kind enough to do so. His post gives answers...

Athenae did it so well that I probably should not. But it looks like a really fun game! And you can try it at home! Here's the or...

It is by Dahlia Lithwick : Imagine a Democratic presidential nominee running on promises to reshape, remake, make over, hog-tie, or even j...

Read this article about Greece and weep: Deeply indebted and nearly bankrupt, this Mediterranean nation was forced to adopt tough austeri...

I try to do this very rarely, for obvious reasons, the most important of them being this : When you want a truly vile opinion dressed up t...

The Huffington Post has an article about this study which interviews one of the study authors, Paul Irwing and also Janet Hyde who author...

Say "blogger's block" several times in a row. Mine will pass soon, I hope. Here's yet another video of Nakke, the parr...

The UK Guardian summarizes a study about men and body image problems with this fascinating headline: "Body image concerns more men ...

I've been reveling in Ani DiFranco's new CD, "Which Side Are You On?" which can be pre-ordered at her label, Righteous Bab...

Islamists have done exceedingly well in the Egyptian elections: The Brotherhood’s party said on its website that it has won 41 percent of...

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 ...