ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

1.  The White House Easter Egg Roll event is really complicated .  Who knew it could be that complicated? I disagree, however, on the pe...

Because they are an Internet tradition.  But before that, here's a message from Franz Kafka: A non-writing writer is a monster court...

Our Dear Leader knows nothing, and he is utterly unaware of his own ignorance, thinking that such ignorance is widespread among the power...

Introduction Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton are two economists of high standing (both are professors at Princeton and Deaton won the Nobe...

One day's worth of Fox News is sufficient to teach anyone that the requirements to get a speaking head job at Fox differ for men and wo...

I couldn't, after all, return the too large jeans I bought online.  So last night I decided to make them smaller.  Seam rippers are ...

Picture from here .  The women are dressed as Margaret Atwood 's handmaids, to protest the loss of women's reproductive rights. ...

A New York Times article addresses a wonderful magic trick, proposed by some Republicans,  which might give birth to a health insurance s...

Introduction I have the computer equivalent of scrap books for all the topics I might want to write on.  They contain many times the ma...

That is the best clickbait the headline writer found to describe Stephanie Coontz' opinion piece in the New York Times. Coontz writ...

Pence, our Dear Vice-President (in charge of controlling the Vices) is a radical Christianist. Like radical Islamists, he believes that t...

Trump does not understand the concept of next moves in political games, because he doesn't understand politics at all.  Now his chicke...

1.  Our Dear Leader is the gift that keeps on giving to those working class white voters who saw in him their salvation.  Remember his prom...

I have an almost irresistible desire to headline this post "Go, Horsey, Go."  Why would this be the case (other than my usual un...

I was going to title this post "For the bookworms," but what I recommend in this post are not books.  So what would the online eq...

The brave new world of Trumpcare must wait a while, because the master of the Art of the Deal failed to get a deal.  Sad!* The reasons fo...

A picture is worth a thousand words, they say*.  This one is about today's meeting between our Dear Leader and the so-called Freedom Ca...

The approach conservatives of all stripes take when it comes to having children is extremely weird, and I do mean extremely.  They interpre...

They should not have taken place at all, given that Merrick Garland was appointed by a lawfully elected president and never got a hearing....

This matters: It's hard to think of another explanation for the different treatment of the Republican and Democratic emails exc...