ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

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Via Eschaton , this news about a poster found in the library of an Arizona school: You can click on the picture to read the text, b...

Some Echidne thoughts about the 2016 US presidential primaries: 1.  Ted Cruz, the forced-birth fundamentalist has aborted his run, and Do...

James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal ( yes , that James Taranto ) loves Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created Dilbert.  That love i...

1.  Giving political commentary while being famous for some totally different reason.  People will want to hear what you have to say, even...

So it has begun, Donald Trump's election campaign against Hillary Clinton.   The first shot: While celebrating sweeping victories in...

I've been reading about the recent changes in life expectancy at birth* for various US demographic groups.  The main findings are summa...

Which Mother/Father Earth gave me one day after Earth Day looks like this:

This would be hilarious if I read it in some movie about a goofy kind of theocracy on some other planet.  But sadly, Oklahoma is on this pl...

Some of you may remember that I have always been at war with ivy at Snakepit Inc.  and until recently the ivy was winning.  This anecdote ...

Donald Trump writes an academic paper: How funny Trump is depends, naturally, on who you, the reader, might be.  He's not funny ...

1. Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the twenty-dollar bill.   As some on the wide and varied Internets have said about Hillary...

Poland already had the strictest abortion laws in Europe, but now those might become even stricter: But now a new bill , pushed by a pro...

Here is an interesting story about the power of definitions of terms such as "men" or "women", about who gets to define...

Believe it or not, I am not always full of doom and gloom and bitter anger, even though it could look that way on this here blog. To pro...

A delicious topic:  How fundamentalist religions cope with sexuality in general and with women's sexuality in particular? The short a...

The story is told in several places, including here.   I have no idea if the painting is a forgery, a genuine Caravaggio, a contemporary c...

This is a re-run, because I spent the time writing about other stuff .  My 2014 Equal Pay Day post gives you lots of link to juicy and impo...

This is an interesting piece by the UK Guardian newspaper: New research into our own comment threads provides the first quantitative...

Prologue This post has no mothers, but it has multiple fathers, the wounded young men of arts and literature who rebelled against the soc...