ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

While doing the laundry I started thinking about detergents and then naturally about anti-depressants (like a brighter, cleaner mind) and t...

Or things I might have written about had I more energy and time: First, heartening news from Saudi Arabia: An influential Saudi cleric...

That's a red squirrel, busy rummaging in its refrigerator. 

This interview (via Balloon Juice)   gives quite a bit of food for thought about what might be happening in American labor markets.  It st...

That's what Justice Scalia of the Supremes called the Voting Rights Act.  The Guardian story I link to tells more about the reasons f...

Because Google co-founder tells us this: Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Wednesday described his misgivings with smartphones, saying th...

Ross Douthat seldom fails to give me (unhealthy) food for my blogging, and his last column is no different.  Ross sounds like a Victorian ...

Seth MacFarlane sang "We Saw Your Boobs" at the Oscars of 2013 where he hosted the event.   You can listen to and watch the perfo...

In Oklahoma, fascinating political stuff about contraception: Under State Sen. Clark Jolley (R)’s measure, “no employer shall be require...

This I don't get about the US elections:  That they are held on a weekday.   By doing that, the American system maximizes the costs of ...

If I could go back to the beginning of my blogging life I would make a few changes.  For one, I'd make different blogs for different to...

That "Where Are All The Babies Gone" article made me think of this genre as a whole.  With very few exceptions, these pieces disc...

Do you know how much Facebook paid in federal and state income taxes in 2012?  Assuming t his article has it right a total of zero dollars:...

At the Daily Beast .  The article is about: Sitting around a table at a hookah bar in New York’s East Village with three women and a gay...

I had to hover near the computer, waiting for something to finish, so I went to I fucking love science .  It has a story about Cecilia Pay...

I must scratch my head over these Republican boys' antics.  Here's the recent joke column at the National Review by Michael Walsh...

(The "meanwhile, in x" posts are about negative news concerning women's lives in various places. ) Content Warning:  Violenc...

Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) today: During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Graham suggested that the sequester’s across-the-board cuts t...

This one: A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified 16 cases of cute kidney injury associate...

The  next Pope will be a man.