ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Is to help Ann Kristin Neuhaus . Why?  Katha Pollitt explains.

1.  Worth reading:  How Women's Voices Were Excluded from the March on Washington.  This is not uncommon in any social justice moveme...

The odds are pretty good for that, even if you don't decide to eat Chinese cuisine.  That's because of large percentages of such fo...

This post talks about their purpose.  What do you think about having comments, not having comments, the best way to moderate them and so o...

There are times (like right now) when I have too many topics to write about, topics which I want to write about, topics which deserve to be...

CONTENTS:  RAPE The Washington Post has a new owner , Jeffrey Bezos, and he's going to create a new golden age for the newspaper! ...

I'm confused, so this post is mostly in the form of questions.  First, read this long article or at least Digby's take on it .  ...

  Vasily Petrenko - Picture © Mark McNulty It's year 2013.  The apples are ripe, the leaves soon turn yellow, and the lusciou...

First there's the Blurred Lines song by Robin Thicke, with lyrics which are really all about the supposed blurred lines about whether n...

It's that time of the year again when we talk about too old parents having children.   I'm annoyed by this piece in the New Repub...

It is a very sad day when the best piece on this was written by a humor site, the Onion.  That piece is sarcasm of a very dark kind and sa...

A new study (seems to be based on a doctoral thesis by one of the authors) suggests that depression rates among men may have been underest...

This is the joke: I think it is funny, anyway. More seriously, and because I read some theoretical literature in the last few da...

I spend a few minutes every day on spam.  It's like having to sweep the same corner of the living-room every day, for some weird reason...

Contents include rape and sexual harassment. I've written about this before , but there's more I want to say about it, partly b...

On CNN Newsroom: CNN host Fredricka Whitfield continued to incorrectly refer to Chelsea Manning as a male as one of her guests suggested...

Or word salad.  Not coleslaw, but the kind of salad where you have goat cheese lumps, too, among lettuce leaves a bit too big to swallow wi...

This is necessary because I took two days off from the computer and its simulacrum of the real world.  But that's a post for a differen...

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 ...