ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

When I wrote my first blog post on this topic, I expressed a bit of cynicism about the idea that Texas could actually acquit someone on th...

In a Truthout piece titled "There Is a War on Ordinary People, and Feminists Are Needed at the Front."  By ordinary people Pilge...

I wrote about this case yesterday.   A man hires an escort, expecting sex (note that this expectation was not based on a written contract,...

Andrea Tantaros of Fox News gives the usual (for Fox)  alien-from-outer-space statement about the appointment of Susan Rice as National Se...

The Google doesn't have a lot about this story, so you may wish to take that into account in judging it.  But the outline is this: In...

Or speed-blogging, if you wish. First ,  the Republican-led Wisconsin legislators d on't like the idea that journalism students learn...

A topic on which Powerful People (US Senators) are pontificating right now : Sometimes one picture really does tell more than a t...

That's the new (late April) Virgin Airlines promotion campaign.  Sir Richard Branson explains how it works  in a video.  The idea is th...

Speed-Blogging, like speed-dating, right?  Short and sweet posts on several topics. 1.  On the increased suicide rates of baby boomers in...

It began (via a tweet from Martha Bridegam)  with a now-deleted  nasty fat-shaming  tweet by a professor of evolutionary psychology, though...

SleeZee Lyers in the comments to my earlier post on the gender gap in wages asks this question: Regarding hidden discrimination, I wou...

Some of you may be familiar with my three-part series on the gender gap in wages.  If not, click on the site given at the top of this page ...

He elaborated on that today , with a blackboard and all!  So that we can be educated, I guess. There you have it.  Dobbs is of course o...

The WAM Facebook campaign has worked, as I mentioned before.  This is fantastic news.  Now the New York Times has written an editorial o...

This gets quite interesting, because at least one woman at Fox is not happy with the very muddled thinking and arguments of the Famous Fou...

The incomparable Hazel Scott and Peace of Mind.  Yes, I want peace of mind.

Here is the video: What Erick Erickson says there is worth discussing further: Erick Erickson, one of Fox's newest contributors...

From Salon: After more than a month of delays, El Salvador’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday to deny a critically ill woman a lifesavi...

Two interesting things for science geeks.  Andrew Gelman writes about the problems with psychological studies and what the data might mea...

All thanks go to the campaign led by Women, Action and the Media; Laura Bates of the Everyday Sexism Project; and Soraya Chemaly.  The camp...