ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

This has been a fun week in the sorta-essentialist camp of gender stories.  Sit back and relax, because you are going to be fed lots of v...

This is a great story about a woman who prevented a massacre.  I think that took real courage and skill, all without a gun. More on the ...

This sad story deserves much more than a note in a speed list.  I've written a little before about the slow death of the forty-hour we...

This new WaPo article on why Janet Yellen is probably not the president's choice for the next chair of the Federal Reserve is fantasti...

This post on Harriet Tubman and what happened recently about her memory. This article on building a new racial justice movement. The g...

Or what are you planning to read if you haven't had your vacation yet?  Perhaps I should ask some of you what you would read if you eve...

The title of a post on the New York Times Opinionator blog.  It's a good post, pointing out the great difficulty of finding and affo...

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 ...