ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Worth checking out what Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs says about the growing income inequality: Income in...

For your kind donations and for reading here.  I now have enough for a new computer, with an ergonomic keyboard and a large screen!   Big h...

That "women are hard to animate" comes from today's Funny Files.  The excuse for not having female characters in the next gam...

Isn't it sarcastic that the acronym ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) is also the name of an ancient Egyptian goddess?  Beca...

I'm singularly blessed by my warped sense of humor.  It lets me enjoy the most recent Washington Post opinion piece on women, after t...

Yesterday I began a post with this: It might be time not to give any publicity for the killers in these mass shooting events, because of ...

George Will is a conservative writer whom Charlie Pierce once compared to a vinegar decanter.   That was funny because it is apt.  Now Geo...

I have not followed the nuts-and-bolts gun politics in the US well enough to know what real changes have taken place in the recent decades,...

Guilt I only remember afterwards how much writing about something like the Santa Barbara butcher takes out of me.  While the writing flo...

This is quoll , an endangered Australian animal. The cuteness hides a major carnivore (thanks to Richard_Thunderbay for the hin...

Why do hurricanes with girly names result in more deaths ?  Lingering sexism as the main author of the study suggests?  Perhaps.  But I...

This one. Reading unmoderated comments on major websites is extremely painful.  Doing it on a permanent basis turns the brain into a Wald...

Because it's nearly impossible to gauge readership*, these days, one aspect of this fund-raising drive is to stand as a proxy for it.  ...

 Here is a story about the life-cycle of one 2009 evolutionary psychology study and its popularization.  The study had a simple conclusion:...

A sad horse story with a happy ending: A mare gave birth a few nights ago to a healthy foal, but the mare died from complications of the b...

Via Digby (who gets the main problem with Kurtz's advice), Howard Kurtz had this to say : My take is this: Let's say Hillary...

According to one site , the April police check of Elliot Rodger, the Santa Barbara butcher, was because of the videos he had posted, but th...

1.  Measles have returned as an infectious disease in the US.  The main reason has to do with the anti-vaccination movement.  The fewer t...

Maya Angelou has died.   Ailey, Baldwin, Floyd, Killens, and Mayfield by Maya Angelou When great trees fall, rocks on distant ...

Time to pay the piper.  That would be me.  I need a new computer and it needs to be ergonomic and have an enormous screen.  So I hope all m...