ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

The meaning of this day seems to be changing to something a little like Mothers' Day.  I spot people congratulating women on this day a...

Or utterly weird.  You decide.  This post is based on some pictures I have on my desktop and my desire to randomly pick two of them and wri...

Good news:  Tunisia establishes the first public domestic violence center. Bad news:  That it is only the first one, and this: Resistan...

In Internet games, that is.  Alphabet Hotel found these two sites which reproduce some of the comments players who are deemed to be women o...

Probably you kick someone in the groin and then mutter a polite "excuse me" and offer them a cucumber sandwich and some China tea...

This cartoon is very funny because it is so very true. This rant about how hard it is to be a man, these days, is also pretty funny: F...

Republicans in Iowa are proposing to make divorce more difficult for people who have children under eighteen: Republican lawmakers in I...

Sheryl Sandberg,  Facebook’s chief operating officer, has written a book about what she calls leaning-in for women who have some power at w...

The coincidence is with the just-for-fun post I wrote on Friday about the need for an empathy pill.  Ed Kilgore writes about t his article...

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...