ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I used to write a lot about gardening, believe it or not.  I have a piece about a garden for guys (beer can mobiles, lots of arums) and a g...

1. Wisconsin isn't doing that hot in job creation.   Governor Scott Walker has tried everything he can think of:  stripping workers...

The world of pickup-artists is one I don't visit very often.  There's something sad about it all (immature? lonely?  lots of mispl...

Here's a fun video for you to watch !  Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) suggests that gender roles in marriage should be taught to young girls ...

He works for the Wall Street Journal and represents the other main stream in anti-feminists thinking.  The first one is based on guy-relig...

The skill gap argument:  That US workers no longer have the skills US firms require,  is an interesting one .   The argument places the bla...

What's hilarious about this proposed bill is the political troubles it has, once again, brought the Republican Party: As introduced...

We know that this is the case, given all those Republican politicians who want to do away with the rape exemption to whatever narrowly defi...

Let me know if you find these annoying.  I'm trying to use up all the baby thoughts I get while scouring the net for things to write ab...

Why is blog spam seasonal or fluctuating?  Suddenly I get ten spams a day, usually not more than one a week.  Is there a Spam Central somew...

I love these weirdo studies, I do!  Now we are told, based on computer simulations and nothing else, that human females have the menopause ...

Last year it was beauty: Dental assistant Melissa Nelson was fired for being too attractive, so she sued her employer. But Iowa's Su...

Laurie Shrage has written a blog post on the New York Times Opinionator blog on the question whether men now have fewer reproductive righ...

This is just a delicious story abut a Maine Republican telling us that man-brains get that health care costs money, woman-brains think it...

David Brooks  laments the loss of all those social ties and regards Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower/leaker, as a major example of wha...

1. This bit about some traders paying for advance government information matters quite a bit, because the economists' market models re...

Contents:  Sexual violence. The story I link to from here is a distressing one, about child molestation and alleged rape and what the co...

The Republican  nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia (Virginia is for lovers, according to tourism promoters), E. W. Jackson, has p...

From here:

First, this story about a letter sent fifty years ago to a female Harvard applicant is salutary reading.  The world has changed for the be...