ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

This post is because the news about increases in the US suicide rates among certain age groups which have traditionally not been the focus ...

Those are many, but these two I truly don't understand: First, City-sponsored gun buybacks are about to be a thing of the past in ...

Here it is: “Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love cha...

Rush Limbaugh tells us that.  This is one of those days when I see the humor in everything and I really loved his little narcissistic boast...

Is severe.  Hence the news about a program closing is disheartening.  And no, giving undergraduates more science writing courses is not th...

What follows is a parody of this article . In case you haven't heard it, the hairyfying initiative is affecting men in the UK.  Som...

Or stuff I could have written about had I gotten up earlier! First , these storie s are a way to show the gnat bites :  The way views a...

If  you haven't signed the petition yet, please do so today . From the petition: Beatriz wants to live. She's 22 years old and...

So asks a Yahoo.com (Shine?)  article in its title: Female Blogger Weight-Shames Cheerleader—Why Are Women So Mean? The article goes o...

This story is almost a week old.  But I'm always either too early or too late, so what the heck: There’s no such thing as a free lun...

Content Note:  Strong Rape Imagery At The End of This Post There's a  good reason to ignore Rush Limbaugh and his misogynistic mutte...

Amanda Filipacchi's NYT article on the treatment of women novelists in Wikipedia's spring cleaning is worth reading.  A taste: ...

Via Rheality Check: Beatriz wants to live. She's 22 years old and the mother of an infant, but the 18 week pregnancy she's carr...

I've followed with some dark mirth the recent complaints about the flight delays caused by the sequestration law in the US.  From Huffi...

First, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education in the US is considering dropping the requirement that family doctors know...

Now that's a controversial title for a blog post!  A piece by Dylan Byers about the reign of Jill Abramson, the executive editor of th...

I was cleaning the yard the other day, raking together the ghosts of last summer's plants, pulling out the ivy aiming at world dominati...

If you are one of those people who think economics is about the most boring thing since spreadsheets, watch last night's Colbert show f...

James Taranto has uttered something nasty again*: TARANTO: One fascinating thing about this is this piece was published no later than 9...

This is a pretty sparse field, given the human tendency to look for and to magnify any gender differences and the similar tendency to ignor...