ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

This is an old joke about the English language: EuroEnglish The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby Engli...

That's an old embroidery of mine,  an attempt to reverse the usual eye-of-the-beholder argument.  Flowers, in short, but curious one...

(Initially posted here ) Three odd things I have recently noticed (again) when people talk politics, both in the media and in private li...

I'm going to take the rest of July off.  I need the break.  I have prepared posts for the time in advance.  Some of them haven't be...

This is an interesting piece about women as bosses in 1956.  It's worth reading through it and thinking about what is the same and what...

Contents:  Sexual violence I have no special knowledge about what's going on , but it's beginning to look more and more like a ...

Florida is eagerly joining Texas, Ohio and other Republican-run states in  the abortion wars.  The idea is to ban abortions after twenty w...

I noticed that my previous post was the 10,000th on this blog.  Not all of those were written by me but most.  That's a lovely round nu...

Ohio Governor John Kasich proudly signs into a law new abortion restrictions : The provisions in Ohio will make it more difficult for f...

If you think of the division of the economic gateau happening between labor and capital, the news we mostly get are whether the slices the ...

It's not by me, and I don't know who invented it.  But it's a beautiful political parable: Americans are like mushrooms:  K...

The official mouthpiece of wingnuts, Fox News, had a chat about a girl who was banned from playing football with the boys at her private sc...

First, American Apparel advertises its unisex shirts rather interestingly.   Several photo series show women with bare bottoms.  Those wom...

The Governor of Texas preached to Senator Wendy Davis,  who filibustered the proposed Texas abortion law which will  make abortion availabl...

It's bad for me.  I don't get what I'm supposed to do with it, for marketing purposes, and my brain tries to fathom every singl...

Kay Hymowitz is the (right-wing) Manhattan Institute Go-To-Girl as the defender of traditional gender roles and biological gender differenc...

The Defense of Marriage Act was declared unconstitutional . Justice Kennedy was the deciding vote.  And yesterday I watched the drama a...

The Supreme Court of the United States has struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act.  The 5-4 decision followed the usual lines, the...

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French in the title!  I'm moving up in the world... What I mean by "being ridiculous" is that it's perfectly acceptable...