ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Is the same as the trouble with Hillary Clinton, quite accidentally and for no particular other reason: The larger question about Gillib...

Coal miners were extensively used in Trump's campaign speeches.  They may or may not have voted for him, but coal mining is what Trump ...

Remember Pizzagate ?  Something equally tasty is baking in the ovens of the right-wing rumor mills: A new conspiracy theory called “Th...

If I were the dictator of this planet my long-term policies would be these: 1. Address climate change .  It may well be the case (as this...

1.  I went to get my hair cut today.  The hairdresser had a bottle of Barbicide on the shelf.  So disappointed to learn that it's not i...

What do you think of the idea of Joe Biden running in 2020?  Something along these lines: If Joe Biden pledged to serve only one term ...

Donald Trump ushered the Christmas season in like this : President Trump was in a celebratory mood on Friday night and told a group ...

To those of you who celebrate it.

These three little stories share quite a lot: First , an Alt Right activist plastered pictures of Meryl Streep in Los Angeles, with ...

1.  I have written a book review ("Neither Fish, nor Peacocks, nor Elephant Seals" ) on Cordelia Fine's Testosterone Rex: My...

The news about the death of cardinal Bernard Law made me re-read the Boston Globe material from 2002 and watch the movie Spotlight (about...

Do you want to learn how the courtiers of olden times had to act in the courts of vicious dictators?  Mike Pence demonstrates the proper be...

Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol tells the conversion story of one Ebenezer Scrooge, a tightwad curmudgeon who exploits his workers, n...

When I saw this tweet by Joe Walsh (we all love Joe, right?), I was reminded of the way later generations evaluated the reign of the only...

These are the words we must not say: The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from u...

1.  Languages are wonderful.  An example : The sneaky trick behind making the same sentence have so many different interpretations ...

1.  So Doug Jones pulled it off in Alabama.  I had trained myself not to expect anything of that sort, and still can't quite adjust to...

The Alabama elections get ever more hilarious : Alabama is allowed to destroy digital voting records created at the polls during today...

Imagine that you have hibernated for five years, say, and wake up this morning to read a tweet from the new president of the United States...

This is a rant about American politics in 2017 and my place in it.  Let me begin by noting that I have never liked politics as a horse race...