ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Sarah Vaughan and Stardust

Louise Mensch is a British conservative politician whose politics are certainly not mine.  She does, however, share my gender and thus the ...

It has gone wild. That's the deep thought, and the reason is the demise of state-sponsored communism after the Berlin Wall fell.  Jus...

From the very first time I saw governor Scott Walker's face, especially his eyes, I knew he was a Nazgûl , one of the ringwraiths from...

Fraser has written two posts ( here and here )  on one of those pieces about what's-the-problem-with-men, the ones which always produc...

Today's child-rearing advice, from a Christianist minister: "So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four...

After writing this post I have no patience with mummy/mommy wars, none whatsoever.  Even when they are ignited kindly and carefully as is ...

I picked up Sheri Tepper's Gibbon's Decline and Fall (1996) to look for a specific reference and got stuck re-reading parts of it....

Paul Krugman writes about that austerity business today (as he has done many times in the past).  How austerity could result in an economi...

That would be the title of E.L. Doctorow's fierce opinion piece in the New York Times .  That the piece appeared in the Times is in i...

Thomas J. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein have written an opinion piece about the comity chasm between conservatives and liberals and even bet...

Sean Hannity interviewed the health care expert (joking) Michelle Malkin on the question whether health insurance discriminates against w...

This article about the humble beginnings of president Obama and the financial struggles of Mitt Romney's family really is quite hilari...

Mona Eltahawy's article on the status of women in Arab countries,  Why Do They Hate Us? has created a fire storm.  I wrote about the p...

This is a neat example of that old canard about feminists/liberals/whoever not having a sense of humor: Fox News political and foreign ...

This Mother Jones article talks about a new model for selling programming jobs: Many of the dozen or so people I interviewed for this st...

And no-one will get hurt! Just kidding. But I'm tired, what with all the wonderful posts I have written recently and I deserve some c...

Several of you have trouble reading the comments and with the formatting of this blog.  The cause has to do with Blogger. Shakespeare'...

I've often written about them. They are the missing ones in the political picture, the groups which become invisible, the arguments wh...

Blogger has recent changes which make it hard for me to keep paragraphs properly separated.  I hope the bug is fixed soon.  So apologies for...