ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

This is the program, from a 2014 article : Colorado's teen birth rate dropped 40% between 2009 and 2013, the Colorado Department o...

Though you can read about it by following the quote in this post .  Paglia's new weirdness is the same as her old weirdness, an odd vi...

An arborist pruned the trees which touch Important Wires to the Snakepit Inc, and also pruned the Internet wire. I had about thirty hours w...

Two recent articles ask whether the phenomenon that is the Islamic State or ISIS or IS or ISIL took the Western world by surprise and why. ...

This NYT story about young women planning more career pauses than their mothers has a couple of weird bits, starting with the headline.  Th...

The coverage of mass murderers, after the massacres they inflict on us, reminds me of a very flawed and partial autopsy*, carried out by th...

Not everything in the world is gloom and doom, and I need to be reminded of that.  Perhaps you, too?   Here are a few good news from the pa...

Poor little things.  They never saw the light of day. I have a few hundred in the draft files on Blogger, and several more died a sudden ...

(note:  The video below has been removed from YouTube, presumably by the officials who put it up in the first place.  There's a new vid...

That title reflects my understanding of these two recent New Republic articles by Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig .  In the first one she argues...

1.  The Washington Post has published a summary of the "why some men bully women in computer games.  It's important that you al...

Sandra Bland died in a Texas jail on Monday morning, at the age of twenty-eight.  She was in that cell because : According to the Texas ...

At first glance this piece of research sounded interesting:  A study about nasty comments in a computer game, analyzed by the gender of th...

All I know about Reddit is that when I get "visitors" from some of their sewage sites I have to put the comments on full moderati...

Mexico suffers from an epidemic of missing and/or murdered women .  The comments to the linked article right away argued that Mexico suffe...

Yet another study suggests that mammograms are not terribly effective in decreasing breast cancer mortality.  For earlier studies suggestin...

I cannot confirm the authenticity of this picture from Sirte, Libya.  It's supposed to tell women how they should dress. But t...

Scott Walker is the current Republican governor of Wisconsin.  He has just declared his participation in the greatest horse races of the ne...

Text:  I know where I am going.  Do you? Note: Borrowed doggie and borrowed landscape which looks like seaside but is a lot ...

The ballad of sad climatologists is about the despair some researchers of climate change feel* when too many (most in the US) deny the re...