ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Here it is: The stifling heat it has me beat I wish I weren't made out of meat

Remember Pizzagate ?  That was just a prelude in the genre of truly nutty right-wing conspiracy theories.  Now meet the Storm *, the perfe...

It still shocks me (though it shouldn't) how blatantly the Republican Party caters for the very wealthiest among us.  The Trump Reich h...

The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's newest annual study is out.  That study examines diversity of various types in the film indu...

Scott Pruitt's resignation letter from the Trump administration was published several weeks ago, but it's preposterous enough to a...

That opportunistic parasite, my dear readers, would be me, and probably quite a few of you. The international Men's Rights conference...

My many flaws do not include irrationality.  If anything, I'm too boringly granola-conscious, brain-addicted and robotic in my writing,...

The New York Daily News will axe half of its editorial staff.  The basic reason : Like so many other print publications, the Daily Ne...

Unless they hurt the Republicans in Congress.  As long as the Republican base wants Trump, other Republican politicians will give lip servi...

Are these very weird coincidences or something else?  You decide. First , on Monday, the US Treasury department said it planned to...

  Auguste Rodin:  Thinker It's impossible for me not to try to understand Donald Trump's mind.  I think it's impossibl...

There's a reason  for treason and a season,  too That's as far as I have gotten with my political ditty for yesterday, to cele...

This is such a hilarious time to be alive (in the tragic sense, of course).  Trump traveled to report to his liege-lord (at the Helsinki br...

The news snippets in the post are collected over time.  Some are very recent, others are a little older, but they are all of some interes...

I have been reading about Trump's European policies. They are a fun reminder of the fact that those who voted for Trump are getting cl...

That would be the Brett Kavanaugh, Trump's choice to replace Anthony Kennedy who is retiring from the Supreme Court.  Kavanaugh is a ...

The background for this post can be found in my first post on this topic:  Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Donald Trump's official "mouth...

Remember "family values?"  They were the big talking point among Republicans in the 1990s, used to combat anything from abortion,...

These are unusual times we live in.  The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood may have been more realistic than many suspected.*  For on...

The US Supreme Court, now nicely on its way to becoming a permanent subsidiary of the Global Trump Corporations, decided on three important...