ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I coined that term in an earlier post .  It's intended to define the process which the right-wing uses to demonize Democratic politici...

The framing of arguments is always fascinating.  I tend to spot a possible bias in the first paragraphs of most studies, articles and opini...

One hilarious aspect of this Turd Reich is the way all sorts of creepy-crawly critters eagerly come out of the woodwork to say all those th...

The Enemies List: 1.  That bitch from the icy hell, though now she is of no consequence but back in her proper place.  Which is a sile...

This tiny news item might have escaped you, given the flood of horrible news items pouring out of the White House and the Congress. But i...

Betsy deVos is going to be the the new Education Secretary .  Her qualifications for the job are money , money, money, Christian fundamenta...

The Saturday Night Live (SNL, a comedy show) did two skits on the Trump Reich.  One spoofed Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer.  The o...

So the Republicans in Arkansas have given husbands the right to stop their wives from having an abortion, even if the pregnancy is due to s...

Great stuff!  The Best Stuff!  Wonderful people, the best white people, are beavering away to destroy the institutions of the state as Bann...

I have an unpleasant feeling that there will be many more Handmaid's Tale posts in our future, because putting women back into their ...

In getting two countries (Mexico and Australia) to hate the US in just two weeks!*  And those were allies!  It's going to be very inter...

Or at least co-president Stephen Bannon.  We now live in a country where the truly hateful views of the white-Christian-male supremacist m...

Welcome to the world of the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.  Actually, welcome to an even more sinister world.  Want to take my ha...

If you are not familiar with Breitbart.com, aren't you lucky!  It's an extreme right-wing website which gives its readers strong h...

This is hilarious:  Trump partly campaigned on cutting drug prices : Donald Trump , who was revealed as TIME's Person of the Year ...

1.  The World Economic Forum publishes an annual report on the global gender gap.  Their measures are based on an index which can be crit...

Or what you need to fight the disinformation wars of our Dear Leader and his Rasputin, Stephen Bannon:  A way to figure out what might be ...

Because I have been the goddess of gloom for far too long.  This is a good piece on all the good things in a fairly bad week. I particular...

That's what this article suggests about the events of the past few days and the first week or two of the Trump era.  For me the most ...

1.  The ban on citizens of certain countries entering the United States took force on Saturday.  The countries listed were Iraq, Iran, Lib...