ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

1.  If you haven't seen this video about a "man losing his temper" at a meeting with Rep. Tom MacArthur,  you should spend ...

This NYT article about an alleged January dinner appointment between James Comey and Trump is a nuanced and elegant example of the horror ...

How do you write snark about this president?  I can't exaggerate his narcissism or his ignorance.  Every time I try, I end up simply rep...

What does writing require?  A famous quote by the American sports writer Red Smith tells us : In April 1949, columnist Walter Winchell ...

The New York Times usually puts the part of diversity having to do with women's rights in the style section, the section that used to ...

So asks the great bard Charlie Pierce in his latest column about  Comey and Flynn.  Read the column.  I did and then shed bitter tears of...

Nina Burleigh argues so in a recent Newsweek article:  Both Ivanka and Hillary grabbed power in the White House that was not theirs, both ...

We don't call it a class war when the rich are winning, and that is what's happening right now. Our Dear Leader and his administ...

Does the House Republicans' health insurance plan let people with pre-existing conditions buy health insurance that they can afford AN...

Moe Brooks, representing Alabama's fifth Congressional district, is a man with firm moral principles.  Those principles keep him cozy, ...

Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi have both suggested that it's not absolutely imperative for Democratic politicians to support reprodu...

( This post is about misogyny, contempt toward women. sexual violence and Evolutionary Psychology.  It may not be what you need to read to...

Meet Teresa Manning, the new deputy assistant secretary for population affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services: Donald ...

Added later:  Shortly after I published this post, CNN reported that the program will not be killed, after all.  Probably the power of my ...

This is what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th circuit has recently addressed, in a case about possible sex discrimination in how earn...

Have now been made available in the sense of a page or two of scribbles, without any impact calculations.  The shortness of those pages mak...

Our Dear Leader began his reign by returning the global gag rule , expanded to many more fields.  That will teach those sluts not to avoid ...

1 .  Did you know that I have a lackluster and boring personality and a sub-par intelligence? (1) I didn't know that, either, unti...

Bryce Covert writes about the false distinctions between "social" or "cultural" and " economic" when politic...

One bad outcome of the Trump era is its possible impact on future standards for US presidents:  There might be none.  A president can now...