ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I haven't done these poetry hours for several years.  The song below is based on a 1976 poem by a Finnish poet Marja-Leena Mikkola.  Th...

1.  Kevin Williamson, the conservative writer who believes that abortion is first degree murder and deserves to be punished as such, is a ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning begins her Sonnet 43 with this line: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. If we replace "love...

Rumors, as yet unverified by the Toronto police, suggest that the Toronto van killer may have acted out of misogyny.  This is based on a ...

Trump's choices of people (the best people, the bigly people)  for his administration are always worth a laff riot or two.  Or would b...

1.  This is an excellent and upsetting article on the high black maternal and infant death rates in the United States.  The problem is no...

It can be enlightening to  read two or more random news stories one after the other. Today, for instance, I first read the story about S...

These are "breaking the silence" posts.  Sometimes the political events of the day or of the week are like a smorgasbord with too...

Paul Ryan is retiring*.  He is currently the Speaker of the House of Representatives, he is fairly young and he doesn't look il...

In the Northern hemisphere. 

Christina Hoff Sommers, a famous anti-feminist,  is a good environmentalist.  To honor the Equal Pay day (which was yesterday) she recycl...

It's a fun topic to think about, arrogance.  I can spot several different kinds of arrogance, but not a single one is the kind of arrog...

Kevin Williamson, for those who are not addicted to American political bickering, is a very very conservative journalist.  He was recently ...

1. A new study (not peer-reviewed or read by your august goddess,  so remember that) suggests that fake news turned quite a few voters aw...

1.  Our Dear Leader is going to send military troops to guard the Mexican border against migrants.  I'm certain-sure that Mexico has no...

Tucker Carlson is my favorite Macho-Media-Man. He recently opined on the end of men in the United States: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): The pa...

The headline has enough hissing for a snake goddess blog and it's bad enough to please me now. I have spent days and days on two very...

Here's an old example about one of the many ways in which occupations can become segregated by sex: Disney Rejection Letter to a ...

Kentucky's Republicans are passing new laws about abortion: The Kentucky House of Representatives passed legislation on Tuesday t...

1.  When will I ever learn to unthinkingly put the month before the day in giving the date?  Early childhood education imprints our brains...