ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Today is the day when food stamp cut-backs take effect.  Among the group affected by this are as many as 900,000 US veterans and their fami...

The new anti-abortion laws can take effect right away : A federal appeals court issued a ruling Thursday reinstating most of Texas...

I write about the Zombie Trends For Women here. An odd serendipity made me read a sad post about the troubles of the progressive movemen...

It's always a fun place to visit!  This time we learn that there are "mean girls" (hard-wired mean!) because cattiness disco...

  This article , caused by the recent debate about whether women should stop drinking too much as a way to cut back on college rape at l...

Think Progress writes about this: The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine that has cut teen girls’ risk of cancer in half is less likel...

I am now making folders of material which one needs to argue with weirdos on the net.  For instance, some time ago a story about a woman wh...

bell hooks writes about the LeanIn movement.  She makes good points about many of the limitations of the LeanIn ideas (their bad fit for w...

When I first wrote about this bit from Media Matters for America, I didn't know that others had already pointed out the group which a...

I have a 1906 edition of her collected letters.  She lived from 1689 to 1762 and is most famous for introducing*  inoculation for smallpox ...

Shocking, isn't it?  In early November I will have spent ten precious years blabbing about everything here.  This will have to be a tim...

If I were Alfie, the friendly alien from outer space , I would probably be shocked by this tweet today: South Korea Struggles to Confron...

Our old pal Rush is not really worth writing about because his shtick is so stale.  But his recent piece about the pink campaign for breast...

This case spells out one consequence of the fetal rights movement, combined with the usual type of inattention to the rights of the womb-c...

To explain why I write about this particular study, I have to mention the sites which picked it up hot from the oven.  They are a physics s...

That's a reference to the old joke about the British and sex.  The reason it's now about the Japanese is a story in the Guardian a...

(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sock_puppet) There are two types of sock puppets.  The first type you can make out of socks, by stit...

I had to travel last weekend and into late Tuesday.  Not having had much of a real break (even snakes need them), my writing well is runnin...

An article by Joseph Stiglitz on global income inequality and what it means to all of us.  A snippet: Of the advanced economies, Americ...

That's a clickbait headline if there ever was one.  I'm trying to learn this game, my dear readers, because it IS the game when tal...