ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

The Daniel Holtzclaw trial is in its second week in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  Holzclaw was a police officer (now fired) who is alleged to...

My shampoo bottle back label says:  Healthier hair. I thought hair is dead.  How can it become healthier?  Will mine rise from the tomb...

1.  Canada's new cabinet has fifty percent those weird types of Canadians who are called women (and more ethnic and racial diversity, t...

I did tell you so, on this blog, many years ago.  It doesn't work to stop young people from having sex to tell them that sex is icky a...

The Taliban stoning story in the New York Times is  upsetting on many levels.  It describes the torture and murder of Rukhshana,  a nine...

Or dental floss to clean your teeth after chewing on the Case-Deaton study, discussed in my earlier post .  Andrew Gelman makes an interes...

1.  The Colorado shooting rampage touches upon one often-ignored way other people's right to open-carry endangers any potential victim ...

1.  "Diplomacy" is like sausage-making.  You don't really want to delve too deep into the process.  An example from today...

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...