ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Make a risotto.  Use real Arborio rice.  While you are busy using two hands adding the boiling water and stirring vigorously, use your thir...

Sometimes it's very hard to write anything at all.  Sometimes life intervenes, kicking the carefully-ordered piles of plans onto the fl...

The first Democratic party presidential debate was last night.  I watched it and all.  First observation :  The debaters all acted like ...

A little bit of laughter, however sarcastic, keeps a goddess in top form.  And I'm sure it works for you, too. 1.  Let's begin wi...

The Background:    The USAToday quoted the term, "the beta boys," when writing about the grudge letter the Umpqua Communit...

How about criminal charges for pregnant women or for women who after delivery test positive for some banned substance?  Indeed, take the id...

The names which matter in this latest of so very many massacres, all enabled by the easy access to guns, are these : Lucero Alcaraz, 19,...

Carly Fiorina and the Planned Parenthood (PP) videos .  The harvesting of baby parts.  The humongous profits PP makes from harvesting baby ...

1.  This long piece on what happened to someone who didn't want to report a rape to the police but was encouraged to do so anyway. ...

Remember my friendly alien from outer space?  The one who tries to make sense of earth-people values and norms and customs? Suppose I to...

If you didn't watch Pope Francis' speech to the US Congress you can read it here.   It looks like* the lefties and liberals liked i...

1.  Economics geeks and nerds should read this article   about the possible role of government regulation in enabling rent capture and how...

Pyrimethamine , better known under its trade name of Daraprim, is a drug developed in the 1940s by Gertrude Elion, a Nobel Prize winning sc...

1. Frances Kissling is an expert on the Catholic Church, and her thoughts on the Pope's statement about temporary clemency for women w...

This post is from the imaginary series of what weird stuff Echidne's mind latched onto when it was supposed to do real work, and has to...

I didn't watch last night's debate because a) life is short, b) I can watch pretend-wrestling done by more skilled people elsewhe...

Even the president chipped in on the question of trigger warnings in US college courses: It’s not just sometimes folks who are mad that...

This is the hilarious side of the Republican war against women.  Just check for yourself, if you don't believe me: When Louisiana st...

It's hard not to notice the impact of certain religious dictates as one of the major barriers to true gender equality in this world.* ...

1.  Watch this video about women's fashions in the West changing from 1915 to 2015, because it's both fun and because you can the...