ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

1.  The USAToday 's Summary of New CDC Recommendations The Big Brother has arrived!  According to the USAToday : Women of childb...

Did you know that 2016 is the first year when a woman has won the Iowa caucus? I learned in 2008 how extremely unpleasant it is to wri...

" Betty Friedan to Beyoncé: Today’s generation embraces feminism on its own terms."  is an interesting recent piece in the Washi...

Have you followed the Oregon protests by a group of anti-government activists ?  The group, lead by Ammon Bundy, registers as right-wing a...

I belong to several Internet groups on various issues.  Some of them allow job announcements and announcements about scholarships a...

1.  From the "armed society is a polite society" files:  A good Samaritan was shot dead by an inebriated driver.  That horrible s...

What do people do when their political ideals clash?  What happens when one set of those ideals is about gender equality? I've been r...

INTRODUCTION John Tierney is a right-wing libertarian science writer at the New York Times .  Wikipedia describes him as follows: ...

That headline is quite likely to make you expect something different from this post than what it actually contains!  And that's part o...

Dana Loesch, a conservative television host on The Blaze tells us that women earn less ONLY because they "choose" to earn less,...

The ivory towers of academia are not a place to lounge on your laurels.  Rather, professors compete ferociously for the diminishing number...

This one .   My goal with that post was to criticize mayor Reker's advice to women.  I would criticize that sort of advice whether the...

After the events of Cologne, Hamburg, Stuttgart (and Düsseldorf) I wrote about yesterday,  the mayor of Cologne organized a crisis meeting....

(Posts beginning with "meanwhile" are about negative events which affect women somewhere in the world). Note:  This post has be...

Like a trial run, if you wish, to see if the gears are too rusty by now. 1.  I bought a new bottle of shampoo, not because the labels off...

This post is like sweeping the floor of all those baby ideas which got dropped in the process of writing.  Well, not really.  Those posts...

No day can be completely wasted when it begins with a Google search for the definition of "schlonged ," right?  Imagine that in s...

This post has to do with all the presidential debates.  I haven't followed them this year.  In past elections I used to write long post...

Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley writes in the Time Magazine about the violence and harassment of Muslim women in the aftermath of the San Berna...

If you can, for it is about rape .  The story is long, nuanced and extremely well reported and written.  It is about a serial rapist, abo...