ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I am all red and peeling which means that the vacation is working.  Today I visited Hattula church.  It has wonderful medieval wall painti...

An older piece of news, but fascinating, about people figuring out the formula for Roman concrete.  Knowledge can also be lost over time. ...

This one , which discusses many of Hannah Rosin's arguments.  And then a post about Stephanie Coontz' take on them and a post abou...

This is a four-part series I wrote about nineteenth century (into the twentieth century) Finnish female painters.  It's not about artis...

I've written quite a bit about guns in the past.  These two posts are within the last twelve months and still worth reading, I believe....

(This is a re-posting from here .   It's still useful because I put together Brooks' views on women in one place.  When they slowly...

Re-posted from here

This is an old joke about the English language: EuroEnglish The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby Engli...

That's an old embroidery of mine,  an attempt to reverse the usual eye-of-the-beholder argument.  Flowers, in short, but curious one...

(Initially posted here ) Three odd things I have recently noticed (again) when people talk politics, both in the media and in private li...

I'm going to take the rest of July off.  I need the break.  I have prepared posts for the time in advance.  Some of them haven't be...

This is an interesting piece about women as bosses in 1956.  It's worth reading through it and thinking about what is the same and what...

Contents:  Sexual violence I have no special knowledge about what's going on , but it's beginning to look more and more like a ...

Florida is eagerly joining Texas, Ohio and other Republican-run states in  the abortion wars.  The idea is to ban abortions after twenty w...

I noticed that my previous post was the 10,000th on this blog.  Not all of those were written by me but most.  That's a lovely round nu...

Ohio Governor John Kasich proudly signs into a law new abortion restrictions : The provisions in Ohio will make it more difficult for f...

If you think of the division of the economic gateau happening between labor and capital, the news we mostly get are whether the slices the ...

It's not by me, and I don't know who invented it.  But it's a beautiful political parable: Americans are like mushrooms:  K...

The official mouthpiece of wingnuts, Fox News, had a chat about a girl who was banned from playing football with the boys at her private sc...

First, American Apparel advertises its unisex shirts rather interestingly.   Several photo series show women with bare bottoms.  Those wom...