ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I won't be able to check comments over this weekend, except sporadically, so all comments will go into a queue which I will clear whene...

This is the second post about Christina Hoff Sommers' argument that, essentially, lower wages are fair wages for women.  The first ...

I'm writing a second part of my posts about Christina Hoff Sommers' anti-feminist arguments in the most recently recycled form.  It...

Today is the eleventh International Day advocating zero tolerance for female genital mutilation (FGM).   This UN sponsored event focuses a...

Added later:  You can sign a petition addressed to president Hamid Karzai here. The Guardian reports on this: A new Afghan law will ...

Meet Christina Hoff Sommers.  It It's Bad For Women, Women Chose It.  If It's Bad For Men, Women Chose It. Are you familiar with...

A survey of Catholics in Germany and Switzerland shows that most reject the church's teachings on contraception, divorce, sexual moral...

Are your tweets simple sentences in a chat you have with someone on Twitter?  Are they mini- thoughts carefully framed and considered?  Ar...

If you have followed the discussion about the name change proposal for  Washington Redskins, I strongly recommend reading this article (t...

Isn't this little statue wonderful? From the Wikipedia article: A bronze statuette dubbed the "Dancing Girl", 10...

Or your just deserts.  For Fox News host Martha MacCallum they might be the same thing for women: Fox News host Martha MacCallum assert...

First, the SOTU speech .  I fell asleep before that started and so didn't watch it.  And then I decided not to write about it because t...

This article is a nice adjustment to all that Scandinavia-worship , by the UK Guardian .  Read it and make sure that you don't want to...

This was passed in the US House but will not become a law.   It's still worth a closer look: The House of Representatives passed a b...

That's fun.  The current political discussion on marriage is not quite so fun.  The two halves of it which came together inside my...

1.  You know you need your eyes checked when every story about buffer zones around abortion clinics reads like it's about butter zones ...

First , and most importantly: A Texas judge ordered life support removed from a pregnant Haltom City woman who has been kept al...

Yup.  Huckabee thinks my libido might be out of control, perhaps out gallivanting, spending money on rubber underwear and G-strings, ogling...

One problem with having such an old blog as I do is that I have covered most of what I wish to say on particular topics before.  When some ...

Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) (an American politician of one conservative flavor) tells in his memoir that wives should voluntarily submit to the...