ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

From June 28 , though he doesn't refer to Aaron Sorkin's views on women and such.  But it's priceless on the individual mandate...

The first can be found here .  It addresses her views on the individual mandate decision. The s econd is by Katha Pollitt.

This might be a new occasional series?  About books that have had an impact on us or about books which are just really fun to read.  Such a...

Our good friend David Brooks has written a not-so-awful column today .  Well, not-so-awful on the Brooks scale.  It's still titled ...

Some very funny responses to the Supreme Court's Decision to uphold the individual mandate in the new health care law.  By people who ...

Two pieces worth reading about the television and the recent "sexist-guy" dramas.  The first one is about Mad Men, Aaron Sorkin...

Based on reading fashion magazines at the hairdresser's today.  Fashion is circular so you should probably never throw your old-but-OK ...

Screenwriter and journalist Nora Ephron died yesterday.  An interesting tribute to her includes this bit: Two years ago, I sat next...

Such fun.  The authorities are planning to install a grunt-o-meter in women's tennis and to make too loud grunts punishable crimes.  T...

Courtesy of Gromit, I spent a fun few minutes reading through this (pdf) .  It's a description of the dream world of Texas Republicans....

This is a hilarious lesson on how to write about women for the Washington Post and other mainstream places (coughMaureenDowdcough).   The...

Do you think the New York Times is testing Campbell Brown for a permanent slot in their opinionator stables?   Two pieces in a very short ...

These statistics are worth a look (All of the fifty) .  Corporate profits are thriving , salaries and wages not so much.  Yet what we keep ...

Dar Williams and the war on women:

I have a post in the oven about this furor-provoking  Atlantic Monthly opinion piece .  "In the oven" sounds considerably more ...

1.  From George Takei's Facebook page: Note the second from the top.  It's the reigning mood of the Twilight series. 2. This...

Remember the Michigan Vagina Control Monologues? The ones in which Democratic State Representatives were not allowed to join: State Reps....

Those euphemisms are really funny.  Because the Right To Work laws pretty much should be called the Right To Workers laws.  Michigan, the s...

Here's something for you to ponder:  The role of the Atlantic Monthly in the gender wars.  I first spotted it when Caitlin Flanagan ...

Sometimes I despair of people's desire for very simple solutions to complicated problems.  Life is complicated, human behavior is compl...