ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the slow-motion tragedy unfolding in southern Louisiana – the one that is poised to flood out some 25,000...

According to the Guardian , women did well in the latest Indian elections: Indian politicians Mamata Banerjee and Jayalalithaa have won c...

Has to do with Mike Huckabee: Do your children know enough about Ronald Reagan? If they attend a liberal public school, probably not! Than...

An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal (where else?) about the impossible burden and unfairness of Social Security and Medicare star...

You may already know that Blogger was bloggered yesterday, and so all the posts published after a certain date and time have disappeared. ...

I have to keep reminding me that actual human beings voted this man in: A hearing of the Senate HELP Subcommittee on Primary Health and Ag...

Popcorn and a mug of hot chocolate! But chocolate is one of the main food groups and popcorn is a vegetable, so I am covered. Life is i...

Today's fun research popularization. It's breezy, it's flippant, and it's on gender differences in compassion : Nearly ev...

Don't you love articles which clearly explain the diseases in our new feudal system of corporations on top, everyone else the serfs? T...

A Hasidic newspaper erased Hillary Clinton from that famous picture of president Obama and his advisers in the situation room during the b...

Yesterday's NYT quotes Chaz Bono, formerly Chastity, on biology and gender. “There’s a gender in your brain and a gender in your body....

In the era of rapid change in the medical field, not more than a few days go by before another major news outlet produces a heartfelt ode ...

H emant Mehta, the owner of the dishonestly named "The Friendly Atheist" blog, has taken it upon himself to publicize the second...

Albino Porcupine Eating an Acorn

We finally find and kill that evil fuck, Bin Laden. You gots to ask yourself then, why, on every single goddam talk show, news broadcast a...

In no particular order

Reading a particularly revealing piece like this one makes my knees go weak and my eyes light up with delirious joy. To be offered a well...

Just now, in the Chinese restaurant: Cashier: Thanks, res. Happy Mother's Day! /hesitates Are you a mother? Me: No. /smiles Cashier: Oh!...

Ezra Klein writes about the vulnerability of Medicaid today: There are two reasons Medicaid is more vulnerable than Medicare. The first i...