ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

As this Salon article shows, the Susan G. Komen Foundation is a babe-in-the-woods when it comes to the power of the social media. I t...

Now this is interesting : The Susan G. Komen Foundation, which recently announced that it is ending grants to Planned Parenthood for brea...

That's absolutely and totally true, my friends. I can prove it easily. Just call lots of men, ask them about their abortion views and...

You probably already heard that Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the largest breast-cancer charity in the country, has decided to defund Planne...

If this is true it brings to mind the virginity tests carried out on Egyptian demonstrators: The National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay...

Do you remember Charles Murray? One of the authors of the infamous Bell Curve book about the presumed lower intelligence of blacks? The m...

You must read Jeanette Winterson reviewing a new biography of Henry Miller by Frederick Turner in the NYT . Miller was obsessed with mascul...

E.J. Dionne at the Washington Post ended up in a pretzel shape trying to explain why Obama wasn't sufficiently fawning towards the US...

Digby shows us an interesting graph about income inequality in selected countries in 1980 and 2008. The income shown omits capital gains ...

That's what hippies used to be told. Or so I have been told. It was fun to see the same argument used now : Speaking to a Lincoln Da...

Why do nature programs concentrate so much on the last day in the life of various prey animals? What is the underlying message they are se...

What do you think when you hear the phrases "civil liberties" and "civil rights"? I hope a discussion of the differences...

It's an awkward juxtaposition, to say the least. First the New York Times writes about the treatment of Chinese workers who assemble...

This applies to most any deadline, not just writer's block.

Mark Cenedella wants one day to be a U.S. Senator from the state of New York. This is the groundwork he has laid : Marc Cenedella, a Rep...

This is such fun! I somehow got on a weird site, barstoolsports.com, and found this: Remember that Saudi Chick Who Was Protesting The Fa...

I quote TPM : An Oklahoma Republican is pushing a bill to outlaw the use of human fetuses in food, because, as he says, “there is a potent...

Do you know what would really lower the prices of health care in this country? According to Peter Orszag it would be people shopping arou...

Which I watched, all the way, through! Do I hear applause? Whether the speech deserves applause depends on what its intended audience mi...