ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Paulette Brown is the first African-American woman elected to lead the American Bar Association. Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty o...

This post puts together three stories I read about Missouri yesterday.  The first is about a legal case where Paul and Theresa Wieland do...

I learned about this new report at Think Progress: One in ten girls has been sexually assaulted. Six in ten children are regularly beat...

I wrote about the Mars Hill church and its creator, Mark Driscoll, eight years ago on this very blog!  You can even read that antique post ...

She does so in a recent Daily Beast article with the title "Men Are Harassed More Than Women Online." It's worth thinking ...

1.   The Events Welcome to Rotherham, England, a manufacturing town near Sheffield.  Right now the town is famous for a reason it would...

This is the current storm in the teacup of US gender politics.  Or the teacup in the storm , depending on how you view the case of what S...

That's the advice Phil Robertson, a reality television star, gave Sean Hannity on the Hannity show when it comes to the Islamic State...

Things to think about: The Five Day Workweek The Forty-Hour Week Annual paid vacation time Paid parental leave Safety Rules At Work ...

Dan Page is the St. Louis police officer who was relieved of his duty because of this: The same St. Louis police officer who was seen on...

First Part A recent article* about hookup culture and rape at US colleges had this quote from one of the students interviewed: Som...

I seem to be currently blocked about writing in depth on any particular issue.  So this post is like giving you the raw ingredients and the...

I've always liked statistics as a science  but never thought it hawt and sexy.  Now I wish we could make statistics more sexy (bare mor...

The foreign and domestic news I came back to (from my selfish post-vacation angle) are so horrible that my customary post-travel migraine h...

That title is a joke, reflecting the surprise of some outside observer a while ago  about the much greater participation of Nordic fathers ...

This will be a hodgepodge of issues, as usual, but more than usual, because I intentionally avoided all news while recharging my batteries....

The vacation is over (sniff), but the letters I planned to write will be written now, and this one is all about the differences I spotted, i...

Or the idea that austerity is a good economic policy to get us rapidly out of recessions .  Or the idea that austerity policies can be use...

I wrote about Roy Baumeister in 2012, because of the paper he then published together with Kathleen Vohs.  It's worth coming back to hi...

Because I still think these are good rants.  This one is about the definition of political participation , this one is about my eternal fru...