ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Interesting news about the Ringwraith realm (with governor Scott Walker) of Wisconsin.  He ran on the topic of job creation but achieved a...

I've been thinking of the message of that very old song recently.  The way people in various social justice movements or on blogs...

This piece talks about influence and how it might be purchased with money.  In this case the influence is ideological and attempts to chang...

This is the post I wasn't going to publish but... The Supremes have been discussing the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).  Many obse...

It veers on sexee acrobatics at points but these two are really very good.

This is a neat video about two female research students and their project:  To create an invisible bicycle helmet.   Via ReadMeGravatar at...

What do you do when everything you write ends up in the do-not-post pile?  Because you don't know enough about some topic, without pain...

Actually, this is the list of all the things I was going to write about but did not! Remember that faux trend piece about feminism dying ...

One preliminary survey suggests that this might be the case: Over the last two years, President Obama and Congress have put the country ...

North Dakota is not a place that puts a high value on the lives of women: Voters in North Dakota, where lawmakers last week approved the...

It is about a study which finds that infants are introduced to solid foods too early if the comparison is to expert advice on when that sh...

This video (via Gromit) about animals shaking to get rid of water really is very relaxing.  When I was little I envied cows their ability t...

Women seeking abortion must be told that it can cause breast cancer.  Except that this is not the case: Results from major prospective ...

Women's eNews reports that the head of the commission has resigned: The 17-page document produced by the latest global gathering h...

I saw this picture yesterday and it haunted me.  It was taken by a Swedish photographer, Hans Runesson,  in 1985, during a march in Sweden ...

She is best known as an anti-feminist who wrote a book attributing the world-wide phenomenon of boys doing worse at school than girls to Am...

1.  This picture , from Ms. Foundation for Women, gives quite a nice summary of the television coverage concerning the Steubenville rape se...

Reading about events in Cyprus reminded me once again about the weird illogical aspect of so much politics.  Stuff, where you have to put ...

These stories are as regular as a menstrual cycle, you know.  And about as exciting.  Feminism is dead so often that I wonder what kind of...

Content Warning:  Sexual Violence This , my friends is rape culture.  I have been sitting on the fence about the general validity of the ...