ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

While we are mesmerized by the circus our Dear Leader is giving us (the panem et circenses principle of governing), the busy little Republ...

1.  The conservative Young Women's Leadership Summit takes place between June 14th and 17th: Turning Point USA, the student-aimed c...

I listened to Trump's press conference while cleaning behind the bookcases*.   I learned that his memory is so good he doesn't need...

The only mentally sound way to read news about Trump is as a form gallows humor.  It would be perfect if we were watching the end of the We...

I love Catherine Rampell's take on the trade wars Trump started.  She explains in very simple terms what is new about Trump's ta...

1.   In May Timothy Snider wrote an opinion piece on the return of fascism in the Washington Post .  He argues that the Internet has not ...

Jeremy Stahl has written on the Trump administration's policy of separating asylum-seeking parents from their children at the US bord...

Three examples of the most misogynist parts of American culture were among the things I read on Friday: First, the New York Times post...

The word "cunt" is back in the news *.  Who can say it?  In what venue?  Why is it bad to use it?  Or is it bad?  Does the ba...

1.  The trade wars have begun.  Trump woke up today, checked what his current opinions might be, and i mposed steel and aluminum tariffs o...

1.  When reality imitates a John le Carr é spy novel.  Well, given dictators such as Vladimir Putin, we shouldn't be astonished by th...

1.  This is an informative article on what may have happened to those 1500 minors lost by the refugee resettlement office.  Some...

Wisconsin's Republican US Senate candidates Kevin Nicholson and Leah Vukmir are fighting for the votes of the forced-birthers*.  They h...

I want to hear Daffy Duck read T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land .   It would be hilarious.  Trump's letter,   telling the North Korea...

1.  The smelly debate about incels (the involuntarily celibate, but only male), mass killings (by the incels, as defined above) and  the ...

Spurned advances provoked Texas school shooting, victim's mother says That's the recent Reuter's headline on the Santa Fe b...

Cool slithery snake energy* to all who have donated already!   There's still time! If I were good at the self-marketing business, I w...

This is a good article on Jordan Peterson and on  his slightly-inebriated-prophet style of speaking and thinking.  Peterson is the ado...

1.  The midterm elections are coming.  It's therefore logical that  The White House eliminated the position of cybersecurity coordin...

1.  Here's another of those hidden foundation cracks the Trump administration is causing by demolishing the government: The Trump a...