ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I like this particular piece (a song about a poor boy courting a rich girl) for silly reasons which don't have much to do with the ...

By the Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, this one : And, here’s the transcript: HUNT: Let me ask you this. The Democ...

Humans have great difficulty with that "what-about-the-alternative" aspect of problem solving. It's pretty visible in the ol...

Pope Benedict recommends radical obedience for his priests. That would be obedience to Benedict, naturally. From his recent homily : In ...

Did you know that Xavier University will discontinue its contraceptive coverage: Xavier University, one of the oldest Roman Catholic colle...

Ann Friedman has counted gender among the 2012 individual-byline finalists for National Magazine Awards: ASME announced the National Maga...

So much of political debate is about emotions, metaphors and whose-side-are-you-on-hmh?, not about facts at all. Right now I'm having ...

This from USAToday is worth thinking about: In the fifth Swing States survey taken since last fall, Obama leads Republican front-runner M...

This piece by Katha Pollitt on Adrienne Rich is quite lovely. From it: The death of Adrienne Rich marks not only the end of a long and t...

The question that the recent challenge to President Obama's health care law hinges on at the Supreme Court of the United States. Tha...

Mother Jones summarizes yet another forced birth proposal , this time from the state of Arizona. The proposal has several interesting part...

Adrienne Rich has died at the age of 82. The New York Times has an obituary and Ms Magazine has a poem in her memory by Marge Piercy .

This seems like a useful appeal: This month the UN Commission on the Status of Women failed to adopt agreed conclusions at its 56th sess...

I've deleted my post on the Trayvon Martin case because I do not wish to hurt Echidne or her blog. If I write again, I will take into co...

That's the common story in the news, though the two parts are mostly split into separate categories so that we would not notice the con...

Do you remember those tag games in the early dawn of blogging? A common one was to write down something about oneself few people knew, som...

An opinion column in the Washington Post argues that professors don't work enough: Through the first half of the 20th century, facul...

I thought this was a joke at first: China has selected two female astronauts among seven candidates for its next manned space mission tha...

It's even on the cover of the Time Magazine . You get to be the richer sex by earning less, on average, than the other sex earns, y...