ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

It backfired in the form of one Donald Trump.  He is a master bully , fun and vicious, getting all the others to root for him against the v...

Ten years ago I wrote* about Mark Driscoll, a Christian preacher with a new cool thing:  To combine the subjugation of women and the hatr...

Donald Trump is a Republican candidate for the presidency of the most powerful country on earth.  And he wants to punch protesters in the ...

Did I ever write here that John Kasich stood out among the Republican Beauty Contest (aka presidential primaries) participants by actually ...

You can read the whole study here *.  It's an investigation into one type of possible gender discrimination:  Do our colleagues (either...

I finally watched a Republican primary debate!  The one held last Saturday, though I watched it from videos and read it from transcripts af...

The US Supreme Court has an empty seat after the death of Justice Scalia.  Who is going to sit there?  How can that person be found? The ...

Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) and Chris Smith (R-N.J.) are two politicians who act like religious patriarchs.  They see their special flocks as con...

Know what is very funny?  The personality changes which happen in some of the most avid supporters  during the US Democratic presidential p...

The New Koch Plan !  It's a re-branded, better-tasting version of the Old Koch Plan which included the following goals: To shrink the...

1.  The USAToday 's Summary of New CDC Recommendations The Big Brother has arrived!  According to the USAToday : Women of childb...

Did you know that 2016 is the first year when a woman has won the Iowa caucus? I learned in 2008 how extremely unpleasant it is to wri...

" Betty Friedan to Beyoncé: Today’s generation embraces feminism on its own terms."  is an interesting recent piece in the Washi...

Have you followed the Oregon protests by a group of anti-government activists ?  The group, lead by Ammon Bundy, registers as right-wing a...

I belong to several Internet groups on various issues.  Some of them allow job announcements and announcements about scholarships a...

1.  From the "armed society is a polite society" files:  A good Samaritan was shot dead by an inebriated driver.  That horrible s...

What do people do when their political ideals clash?  What happens when one set of those ideals is about gender equality? I've been r...

INTRODUCTION John Tierney is a right-wing libertarian science writer at the New York Times .  Wikipedia describes him as follows: ...

That headline is quite likely to make you expect something different from this post than what it actually contains!  And that's part o...