ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

(Content warning:  Racism and sexism) That was my first instinct when I viewed this recent video of an audience question at a panel of ...

In the US belongs more often to the daddy than in the past.  That's the main take from a new Pew Research study on parenting opinions ,...

This is good news: Sara Volz of Colorado Springs won first place — and $100,000 — in an Intel Foundation science competition for her res...

Is Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the former archbishop of Buenos Aires, who takes the name Pope Francis.  He is the first non-European Po...

I have written about this before, but a new crime where the sought culprit is 64 years old makes me wonder about the same thing again:  Ha...

I don't really have a writer's block of the usual type,  but last week I wrote fourteen hours one day (my fingertips still hurt!) a...

Here it is: The cardinals locked away to choose the next pope will be served plain but wholesome food — and nothing so delicious that t...

That would be Rush Limbaugh : He takes the opportunity the day offered to discuss why he loves the term "feminazis" (which he...

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.