ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

This , about a new Pew Study on the middle class,  is a few days ago but still worth pointing out: The Pew study is just the latest indi...

I don't usually do this kind of writing but it seems deserved,  what with the recent Republican platform's Personhood Amendment (wh...

The Republicans really do fight a war against women and all things with female cooties!  I find this truly fascinating!  Well, not the war ...

That would be the Republican platform on abortion: The draft official platform strongly supports a "a human life amendment" to...

WOW . The things I learn by going through my posts for 2012 (so far) all in a row!  This is the way a woman gets on the cover of a gener...

I almost forgot t his post about David Brooks.

I do tend to dissect Brooks' writings often, don't I?  But the truth is that I stopped reading him so obsessively some years ago an...

Rep. Todd Akin explains what he means by "legitimate" rape: Akin explained — during a follow up interview with Dana Loesch — t...

It's such fun, honest, except for also being extremely hard work.  I used to be very smart once, sigh.  And those archives can stand as...

You must have heard about the Todd Akin statement by now, right?   This : A summary: Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for Se...

(Reuters) The name refers to a Russian feminist punk band : Given how world famous Pussy Riot has become, people are sometimes s...

From my files A reminder that how we dress is not just an independent choice, totally uninfluenced by the culture we live in...

A re-thought, in fact, because I found it in my archives.  Someone else probably said it before but it's still a delicious one!  Here i...

I'm still going through my old archives.  Remember John Tierney?  For a while he was a conservative political opinion columnist at the ...

I came across this link again in my archives.  The site is well worth visiting, for a reality correction.  Our views of what female breast...

Time to write about the Republican VP pick, right?  When I first saw the news I kept thinking that this is someone I know very little about...

This is interesting : An unusual angle to the question of why clothes must inform us about a person's gender.  My take on that is ...

I'm going through my old blog posts for a project I have in mind.  So far I've finished with the long-past year of 2006! The toil...

Given this recent (and very angry) post by Paul Krugman on three economists: Glenn Hubbard, Greg Mankiw, and John Taylor , I thought an old...

These are my vacation videos!  Aren't you glad that I offer them to you.  Sit down, over there and pay attention, now. Just kidding. ...