ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

The "we" would be the Nordic countries, and what the winning is about is coffee consumption.  Here's the pic*: What...

Yesterday I got depressed by checking out all the parts of this world where wars and violence are prevalent right now.  Syria , Iraq , Sout...

The Upworthy trick in making linkable posts by using certain headlines!  Check out this slide show , especially slide number 7.  I saw that...

1. This New England Journal of Medicine article is useful reading.  It is about how anti-abortion legislation affects what is expected of ...

This piece and the attached video are worth thinking about.  The federal tipped minimum wage, the wage restaurant servers get before earni...

This will all be silly stuff as I'm not wearing my Echidne helmet today.  First, Leonardo da Vinci's Michelangelo's grocery li...

May 2014 be good one for you and yours. I have no talent for end-of-year retrospective assessments, because, as my car mirrors tell me, t...

Pew Research Center has a new survey out on that (n=1983 adults).  It has been written up in various ways, but the major result people tal...

Blow jobs. I bet you never thought you'd read something like this on my priggish blog!  And this is definitely not safe for viewing in ...

The confluence of events sometimes teaches us  what might happen.  First, take the case of Justine Sacco: Roxane Gay writes about it: ...

The honorary Scrooge of this year's Christmas is  probably Wal-Mart : U.S. companies, forbidden to give money directly to political ...

1.  Two Pussy Riot members have been freed which is good news.  But read about their experiences in prison. 2.  Why the Republican Party...

If you celebrate Christmas, have a very happy one.  If not, enjoy this end of the year.  To all of you, a wonderful 2014!

President Obama reads political columnists.  His top ten list*  is 90% white and 100% male. That's probably not because he would have...

I've had those with the computer and the modem today, and earlier I had problems between the incompatibility of my old scanner (it scan...

From the very north of Europe

Did you read about the MRAs (Men's Rights Activists) who bombed Occidental College with false rape reports ?  Think Progress: Occid...

The a cappella band is called Rajaton (limitless, infinite, without boundaries or borders).

I have changed the default avatar in the comments, so don't be frightened that it's part of a snake.  If you find that bothersome I...

Our old misogynist pal Camille Paglia wrote an article for Time with the fetching title "It’s a Man’s World, and It Always Will Be....