ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I was reading this about a possible conscience clause in the US military: Some House Republicans are pushing for inclusion of a “consc...

This is the connection Christy Wampole draws at the Opinionator blog of the New York Times .  The causal arrow her bow shoots is from the d...

We may achieve some minor steps in that direction.  President Obama has hinted at that and several pro-gun politicians have expressed some ...

This is a good list , these nine facts about guns and mass shootings.  But, as usual, it omits the most obvious fact.  David Sirota address...

An electric lawnmower and a pair of nail scissors can both be used for cutting the grass, right?  It's the human being who cuts the gra...

Some of you have had trouble commenting with Disqus.  I'm not quite sure what the problem is or was but I finally realized I hadn't...

Content:  Violence And then the discussions the Connecticut slaughter has started: First , the conservative Christian fundamentalist po...

This is the song of the earth to all the children who have died in wars and acts of terrorism, or maybe a faint echo of it: These ar...

Is this one .  I've had two experiences of that generalization just today.  O well.  At least I always have work for this blog.

I'm passing on these two links for your reading.  First, the pro-life dry cleaner which puts "Choose Life" messages on its wi...

Which I have now read, thanks to very generous Santa Claus/Father Christmas readers.  The report on the study is a very short one.  It only...

The Republicans in the Michigan House just turned the state into a "Right To Work" state.  Thousands are protesting outside the H...

A peculiar thing happened in Texas!  Its lawmakers decided to do away with funding Planned Parenthood for political forced-birth reasons, e...

The New Republic has an article  on the possible consequences of people having children at older ages.  The headline: How Older Pare...

Content warning:  If you listen to this audio your ears will detach, circle the whole globe and reattach themselves on the wrong sides of y...

Here's an interesting Danish study and its popularizations for you!  When I was going through several of the popular media summaries I...

Content:  Violence Sometimes watching Fox News is like being offered a glimpse from another reality altogether.  Here's Dana Perino su...

This is a tale of two studies.  The first, by Saul L. Miller and Jon K. Maner,  was published in 2010 and you may remember it.  Here's ...

The background for this debate : Last week The New England Journal of Medicine published a study with the potential to change both medic...