ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

1.  This is a hilarious response to Tim Hunt's concerns about women in STEM laboratories (see here for my earlier take on what he said...

It's almost a truism that online debates (say, on Twitter) lack nuances, and usually I just accept that and slither on.  But on some da...

1.  This video (at the link) by the comedian John Oliver on the online harassment of women is worth watching. 2.  Some very good news a...

Nigel Short is a chess champion.  That makes him an expert in most everything, certainly the person to argue that there are so few women in...

Reading about the massacre of nine innocent people in Emanuel AME Church, Charleston,  last week,  made me physically too sick to write ab...

Which is an explanation for the quiet week on the blog.  I need snoozes like these two are having:

The New York Times had a story about Matt McMullen, the creator of female robots for sex.  The story in the NYT , and an earlier story a...

I've never liked pink.  I associate the color with lingonberry porridge which I hated as  a child, because I hate the sour taste of lin...

I don't usually write blog posts about anonymous comments elsewhere, but these particular ones are too juicy to miss, because they giv...

1.  These three articles on the sometimes troubled relationship between feminism and the trans movement look a bit like thesis, antithesis ...

I love these foot-deep-in-the-throat stories, especially from those people whom the world has coddled and revered to such an extent that th...

Brownback is the fundamentalist Republican governor of Kansas who in 2012 went wild on those popular tax cuts , with the simple-and-flawed...

I'm exceeding myself in stupid headlines.  The reference to "sod" is meant to capture the flavor of a complaint from one play...

Do you know what is truly annoying?  To write not one but two posts on different topics and then to find out really recent news information...

I'm tired and my arm aches after physical therapy.  That's the perfect time to give my opinions on the interview Michelle and Jim Bo...

My apologies for linking to a parseltongue website , but the story can be understood without getting the language.   It's about a Europe...

He's a Republican with a wolf smile: Texas is now allowing students, faculty and staff over 21 years old to carry concealed ...

I'm in my dark humor stage.  That is a contents warning. 1. The funniest headline I've read for a loooong time: Have Democrat...

For your generosity and kindness during my fund-drive, and for reading me.

A Canadian reporter, Shauna Hunt, was interviewing some football fans when one fan said to the fan being interviewed:  Fu*k her right in th...