ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

No day can be completely wasted when it begins with a Google search for the definition of "schlonged ," right?  Imagine that in s...

This post has to do with all the presidential debates.  I haven't followed them this year.  In past elections I used to write long post...

Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley writes in the Time Magazine about the violence and harassment of Muslim women in the aftermath of the San Berna...

If you can, for it is about rape .  The story is long, nuanced and extremely well reported and written.  It is about a serial rapist, abo...

Some recent good news about women, some of wider significance than others, but all with some good stuff in them: -  Saudi women were, for...

A fun exercise for you would be to watch the video at this Media Matters post . It's meant to be a jokey one about New York's tra...

The current concept of privilege in progressive/feminist circles is one with which I have a love-hate relationship.  The concept I mean is ...

I have so hoped that Trump would just go away.  He's not planning to go away, however, because he has far too much fun by showing how s...

Two non-scientific samples from my readings today.  They are from different communities, by the way, though not intended to be representati...

Mass murders are now too frequent for me give them the attention their victims deserve.  The most recent one, in San Bernardino, plucked fo...

Tomorrow's New York Daily News cover:

The Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood murders.  What is there to say about them that hasn't been said before?  That three parents , a...

Ted Cruz is a brave, brave man.  He has said what no-one else in the Republican Party dares to say:  That there is no Republican war on wo...

I am thankful for all my readers, for all those who have donated money to my chocolate reserves, for all people who are kind, smart and eth...

1.  I would never make a journalist.  I can't write the way journalists are expected to write (if I can write at all).  All interesting...

Caitlin Flanagan has written a book review in the Washington Post .  That's not in itself very surprising, but two things about the bo...

US online debates about terrorism, the proper treatment of refugees and other related issues leave me exasperated.  Also sad and angry, of ...

  The 2015  Global Gender Gap Report is out.  It's part of an annual series published by the World Economic Forum, focusing on how e...

Guess how old this blog is in November 2015.  Thanks for the years.

Care to read a short story by a Townhall conservative columnist Kurt Schlichter?  The blogs of Digby and No More Mister Nice review this...