ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

In an alternate reality: The United States elected a female president in 2016, one Donna Trump (on the left in the above picture), ...

Because I'm an ancient blogger, I have written about the International Women's Day far too many times.  Today's posts are ther...

This always happens to me, missing out on fun stuff.  For the last four days I've been deep down in the well of deadlines, scribbling a...

1.  Authoritarianism is the new-old fashion in politics: The surprise disclosure on Sunday that the Communist Party was abolishing co...

The Washington Post tells a story about how conspiracies and fake news are hatched* on such sites as 4chan and 8chan and Reddit and how t...

President Trump on Monday claimed he would have run into a Florida high school to prevent a gunman from carrying out this month's ma...

Putting cat pics up on blogs on either Friday or Saturday is a hallowed Internet tradition.  As old as blogs are, and don't we all know...

One mother of young children sent me a Facebook-disseminated story about vaccines from a site called Neon Nettle.  Neon Nettle is a mostly ...

The recent school killing in Florida resulted in the deaths of seventeen individuals*.  It also produced the usual pro-gun chatter which ...

1.  Thirteen individuals working at a Russian troll farm have been charged with "an audacious scheme" to criminally interfere in...

When the two ex-wives of White House aide Rob Porter accused him of domestic violence (including choking ), we were first told that this w...

1.  Economic inequality in the United States is greater than in Europe.  The 2015 economics Nobel prize winner, Angus Deaton, has written a...

The Guardian asks how dangerous he is, and appears to answer: "very." For more on professor Peterson and his ideas, I recomm...

Yes, he does.  And he just may get one . Let's give him some models he might want to use for it.  Here's Berlin 1933: And ...

1.  It's un-American and even treasonous not to applaud when Our Supreme Leader gives good labor market news.  So says Our Supreme Le...

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...