ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Here: The activist sentenced to 1,000 lashes in Saudi Arabia underwent his first flogging despite the country’s Supreme Court be...

That would be the Republicans in the US Congress.  The new Congress hasn't been open for business very long, but the House and the Sena...

1.  This is a very moving first-person essay on female circumcision or genital mutilation, depending on which term you prefer. 2.  Moun...

You can read it here .  Surveys of this type don't really say very much unless they are put in perspective by repeated surveys over tim...

Run for your lives, because the sky has turned pink.  Brownback never saw a tax he didn't want to cut.  As the Governor of Kansas he go...

That's one of the rules of most fundamentalist religions when it comes to women:  The ideal woman will not be seen or heard.  Instead, ...

Cardinal Raymond Burke (whom Pope Francis has demoted) has given an interview .  It tells us the reasons why men shun the Catholic Church. ...

Tell the government of Saudi Arabia to release blogger Raif Badawi. Background: A liberal activist sentenced to prison and flogging ...

1.  Life is complicated.  The world is complicated.  People who don't care about nuances miss an important basic fact about everything....

That's president Obama's proposal: President Obama on Friday will propose making community college tuition-free for “responsib...

It's almost impossible to write about the role of religion in attacks of this kind, especially when the target is the West and when the...

I predicted that it would be something in the war over who controls uteri.  That I was right is of no importance, because that's what c...

Serendipity gave these two stories in one day.  First Rush Limbaugh tells us that feminazis* teach on college campuses that all sex is r...

Here's a story about how not to spend your paternity leave.   That would be drinking while not having any interest in that new-born c...

1.  Now this is the f unniest quote in 2015: LAUER: We talk about this a lot, we have in the past, will this be the year that America...

By Emily Dickinson : I dwell in Possibility – A fairer House than Prose – More numerous of Windows – Superior – for Doors ...

1.  This is a fun story about Kierkegaard and trolls.  I'm not sure how exactly we can apply that to online trolls and demons.  Some o...

I wish all my sweet and erudite readers a very good year.  Also peace on earth and all the other usual goodies. I've been hibernating...

1.  I came across a piece of news about the South African president Jacob Zuma .  He's thinking of taking a fifth wife , because in th...

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