ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I have been following the Boston Marathon bombings and its aftermath.  I'm glad that at least one of the alleged bombers was captured a...

An interesting story from Maravan, Iran: A group of Kurdish activist women from Marivan, along with a few citizens of the city, held a ...

That's the reason for no deep, meaningful or boring posts today.  I love this arrangement.  It might be a bit like being the grandparen...

Articles that should be written and researched: 1.  What actually happened to the culprits in the aftermath of the financial and housing ...

Here's a fun study about how men find it more difficult to judge women's emotions than men's emotions and how different parts ...

Well, we learn that in some ways the New Pope Is The Old Pope: In a statement issued Monday, the Vatican said Francis had “reaffirmed” ...

That would be a lot of the US media covering the Boston Marathon bombings.  Because of 911, I was aware of certain things to look for, eve...

My thoughts are with those who suffer, both in Boston and in Iraq .  It is far too early to conclude anything about the Boston bombings, e...

Love it.  Our affair began fairly recently but the food sex has never been better.  It's worth all that foreplay, standing by the...

Contents:  Sexual Violence, Suicide, Ostracism Rehtaeh Parsons in Canada and Audrie Potts in the United States were teenage girls.  Both...

This is a truly rotten proposal : This week House Republicans will introduce the misleadingly titled “Working Families Flexibility Act ...

Content Warning:  Body Images and Anorexia Joan Smith in the UK Independent reviews The Vogue Factor , a book about the eating requirem...

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so awful : Ladies and gentlemen, here's your preview of the 2014 Republican campaign commer...

Is Google Analytics.  It gives me almost three times the number of visits as Sitemeter does.  Blogger numbers are somewhere in the middle. ...

Running after the train that passed the station is my frequent and sad lot.  Now that I have finally read Sheryl Sandberg's (and Nell S...

This is my take (as a five-year old) of the fairy tale Puss in Boots.   For some reason I remember worrying about the fact that the cat wou...

Has died.  Melissa McEwan at Shakesville has a thoughtful article on Thatcher's role as the first (and still the only) female Prime Mi...

T his was created after Obama's comments about the looks of Kamala Harris. It's one of those "hottest this or that" list...

Media Matters has done another study about the numbers of Republican, Democratic and neutral people on those shows.  Republicans are, in ge...

Contents Warning:  Rape and Intellectual Games Steven Landsburg is an economics professor at the University of Rochester and a former Slat...