ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

The previous post shouldn't have been published because it doesn't say anything useful.  But the work I was doing on it had sent l...

I've been researching the Ben Fields case .  Others have talked about the way black students may be punished more harshly at school th...

Came across it while searching for something else.  I wrote it nine years ago for the single purpose of helping people to understand opinio...

1.  The South by Southwest convention cancels a planned panel on harassment in games ( " Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games ...

I was feeling cruddy yesterday so spent the day in bed watching the hearings until I fell asleep (for sixteen hours and now I'm bright-...

Should feminism be at all concerned about rich, white (in the US), educated and relatively powerful women and their problems?   Aren't ...

This post on Eschaton   made me think of the way the market gods are usually worshipped*  among conservatives, except when it comes to educ...

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...