ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

In Oklahoma, fascinating political stuff about contraception: Under State Sen. Clark Jolley (R)’s measure, “no employer shall be require...

This I don't get about the US elections:  That they are held on a weekday.   By doing that, the American system maximizes the costs of ...

If I could go back to the beginning of my blogging life I would make a few changes.  For one, I'd make different blogs for different to...

That "Where Are All The Babies Gone" article made me think of this genre as a whole.  With very few exceptions, these pieces disc...

Do you know how much Facebook paid in federal and state income taxes in 2012?  Assuming t his article has it right a total of zero dollars:...

At the Daily Beast .  The article is about: Sitting around a table at a hookah bar in New York’s East Village with three women and a gay...

I had to hover near the computer, waiting for something to finish, so I went to I fucking love science .  It has a story about Cecilia Pay...

I must scratch my head over these Republican boys' antics.  Here's the recent joke column at the National Review by Michael Walsh...

(The "meanwhile, in x" posts are about negative news concerning women's lives in various places. ) Content Warning:  Violenc...

Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) today: During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Graham suggested that the sequester’s across-the-board cuts t...

This one: A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified 16 cases of cute kidney injury associate...

The  next Pope will be a man.

President Obama's universal pre-school program suggestion has provoked much discussion.  The impact of pre-school on later success in l...

This is a hilarious example of the kind of stuff one usually read on the MRA sites. It mixes cocktail-party evolutionary psychology (men...

The gross gender gap in earnings between women and men working full-time increased in 2012, I read: As the Obama administration puts inc...

Some suitable poetry for this day : Like the very gods in my sight is he who sits where he can look in your eyes, who listens close to y...

The book by Betty Friedan, important in American feminism, turns fifty.  Menopausal, it is! I wasn't going to write about the book bu...

Meaning something I don't usually write about, such as sports.  I've never wrestled myself but I have worked on strategies against ...

I've spent an interesting hour or two chasing for one particular quote on Roy Baumeister's ode-to-men, also known as his speech abo...

We should talk more about incentives in politics and in policies.  For example, the US system of tying health insurance to employment creat...