ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

A fun religious post for you all!  I once considered Lettuce Prey as my Internet handle but decided against it.  Here it can stand for one ...

Than in my previous post , both because I put that one out while quite ill and because this article is interesting.  It doesn't change...

As per one study: A new obstacle to scientific literacy may be emerging, according to a paper in the journal Science by two University o...

The link is here.   The "duh" doesn't mean that the topic isn't worth studying, by the way.  What if the study had found...

This is one of the costs that come from writing on the topics I do, I guess:  My unconsciousness giving me this dream instead of one ones a...

I promise that not all my future posts will be of this sort.  First , the question about Moscow Olympics and the Russian anti-gay laws.  ...

Today's funny cartoon .  As you may note, I'm still frustrated about the collapsed anthill aspect of public debate. But it...

Acid attacks tend to have female victims .  The numbers quoted in this article suggest that 75-80% of the victims are female.  Why that i...

In case you like a bitter laugh to complete your day : In that video Stossel tells us that there is nothing that remains undone for femi...

This bit of quicksand has to do with my frustration with so much of the debate on various political issues including feminism.  The more sa...

(Contents include racism and sexism and weird pseudoscience) That guy is like Teflon.  Nothing seems to stick to him, sigh. On the ot...

I've been on the beach, building sand-mountains (breast or penis symbols, perhaps) and using my bare toes as sand-shifters.  Such fun. ...

First read Katha Pollitt's discussion of the newest anti-choice idea:  That making abortion illegal after twenty weeks is AOK because ...

That's part of the title of a Slate post by Matthew Yglesias (he probably didn't choose the title).  The rest of it is "Ameri...

Writes she, while happily skipping about, cracking jokes and then bursting into feminine tears.  Well not really.  But I was trying to re...

I specialize in those.  This one is about two things.  First, what  USA Today wrote about Simon Cowell yesterday: 'X Factor' cr...

That whip-and-carrot business applies to the old adage about how to make a donkey or a horse do your bidding.  American conservatives like ...

I'm happy to see you all but not so happy right now otherwise.  A humongous plant has sprouted from seed to five feet in four weeks, in...

I think it's a good list, and offer it here for free!   Isn't that wonderful? I have several posts on similar stuff and I'm ...

(Originally posted here) These stories are as regular as a menstrual cycle, you know.  And about as exciting.  Feminism is dead so of...