ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I could still use more money for the running of this blog.  If you have not yet given and have extra coins, consider funding me.  After all...

Sounds like I'm going to write about boring crap, eh?  But it's important boring crap. First, this bit of news: Managed-care c...

The minor children of politicians are inappropriate t argets in the political baseball games or political keyboard wars.  Those children...

First, men are terribly oppressed in the UK, too: It is official: men are an oppressed minority these days. Despite an entire human hi...

I love this cartoonist .  I'm glad that she is recovering from her depression.  While you are at her site, check out the story about do...

This Slate article about the well-paying right-out-of-college fields (which are engineering, engineering and engineering) uses the follow...

A story about violence by women on the website of the Finnish state television company begins like this: Vaikka naisten osuus nujakoinni...

I wrote about it earlier. Mother Jones has an article about why the Act doesn't help working families, and it mentions one aspect I ...

This is fascinating advice from Francis the pope to nuns: In speaking to the sisters about chastity, he said, “Chastity for the Kingdom...

It's that time of the year, again.  I need the coins you can dig up from under the sofa cushions!  If you have no money, do not feel gu...

The events in Worcester....  I watched an interview with the undertaker who accepted the dead body of the Boston bomber and now cannot fi...

Egypt is in trouble , because it has more population than it can support .  The Muslim Brotherhood is not equipped to face the problem of p...

Those are the sorts of terms some use to denote older men and women (respectively) who have younger  intimate partners, and those are the t...

From the Guardian : An officer who led the US air force's sexual assault prevention and response unit has been charged with groping a...

I got a request to sign a new anti-gun-control petition for the US Congress and the US president.  If I did that,  I would be entered into ...

Several blogs and websites report that an Iranian senior cleric has blamed women who wear revealing clothing and dress promiscuously for e...

This report (pdf) is a compilation of face-to-face surveys in 39 countries or territories in Africa, Asia and Europe.  Most of the surveye...

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...