ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

( From last May .  You might also wish to read this post about the coverage of the case.  It equates the Duggars' sect with Christianit...

You know about the women who are called mail-order brides, right?  From the point of view of, say, American men who seek such a wife  the m...

(Originally from last February .  Not much has changed about the situation, though of course Scott Walker,  the governor of Wisconsin, want...

This popularization about a study concerning breast-feeding was hilariously bad.  I had fun writing about it, in a dark-humor sense.  This ...

This is something I often fume about, the pre-publicity of papers not yet published or not yet available. Why is this custom bad?  Becaus...

By Violeta Parra: And by Mercedes Sosa: It's fun to compare different artists' takes.

(From last March) Yesterday (i.e. March 19th) was the eightieth anniversary of the game called Monopoly.  There's an interesting subt...

(This mini-series of classics covers a few of my recent long posts, the ones that required a lot of hard work.  Each of them is of value abo...

 (Originally posted here .  Everything in it still applies, income inequality is still growing and so on, and it's still worth your whil...

That clumsy headline is an attempt to describe what I went through while studying a Pew survey on changes in the numbers of stay-at-home mo...

These two studies about men and women in the labor markets are worth reading, despite their focus on the upper classes. For a fairly goo...

Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre : I often think of that as the music of war.

(From last November .  More material has since cropped up about Uber, both good and bad.  See what Dean Baker plans to study when it come...

(This mini-series of classics covers a few of my recent long posts, the ones that required a lot of hard work.  Each of them is of value abo...

(Originally posted here .) I've always liked statistics as a science  but never thought it hawt and sexy.  Now I wish we could make s...

This late 2013 post talks about a study which, among other things, tells us the reasons why almost all parenting studies are really abou...

You might begin by reading a 2013 post I wrote about an extremely influential study and its reception.  Those argued that we have finally ...

Clara Schumann (1819-1896) - Nocturne in F major Op.6 No.2 from 'Soirées Musicales' : Clara Schumann was married to the composer...

I parked next to a painters' van.  Two house painters in their white overalls got out of it, both young women with long braids.  Not a...

This post is roughly a year old by now, but it still reads well to me as my opinions about the ur-slut question:  the way conservatives vi...