ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

The Nunes memo was supposed to be a great move in the Republicans' war against the FBI.  I think its release fell flat, for reasons spe...

Anna Maria van Schurman By Jan Lievens - National Gallery, London, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=268...

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Playing Hide-And-Seek With Women And the Feminine Remember how angry the Channel 4 interviewer, C...

Fresco showing a woman so-called Sappho holding writing implements, from Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum (148421018...

I wrote a post earlier about Jordan Peterson's views and his great influence, especially on men. You should read it if you are not fam...

When we argue with someone on Twitter or Facebook, are we engaging in a public debate?  Or a private one?  Is the online world in the publi...

Reality is more wonderful than any amount of irony and sarcasm I can cook up on this blog.  Take, for example, this mysterious new candidat...

I have been thinking of the lefty concept of inclusiveness and of the concept of a wide tent in politics in several contexts recently.  Wha...

1.  Ursula Le Guin died yesterday at the age of 88.  I love her books, both fantasy and science fiction.  Some of them I keep on the Kindl...

Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist, a professor of psychology in Canada, and the iconic guru of a new self-improvement movement th...

Andrew Sullivan wrote an ode to manhood about two decades ago.  I still remember it. His new piece runs along similar lines: There'...

Lawrence G.  Nassar was the sports physician at Michigan State University.  He was also the physician of the US national women's gymna...

This is a tough time for writers of political sarcasm or even of snark.  Irony, too,  has been banned from entering this country. How do...

1.  My new year's resolution is to become more arrogant.  You know, like most writers out there. 2.  There are very good reasons why ...

I couldn't sleep last night so I read the transcript of the Glenn Simpson interview , all 300+ pages of it.  Despite its soporific val...

Sexual harassment at work is a form of labor market discrimination.  As long as some workers must endure it but other workers (of the same ...

This post is a response to the following tweets from our Dear Leader ....Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have bee...

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...