ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I love re-reading Terry Pratchett as an escape from the Trump Reich and all the other problems of this world, but as this post from last yea...

I wrote about that in March , but the problems in coverage haven't since disappeared*.  It's always useful to make the thought expe...

" A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. " The bottom section (after the embedde...

That's the kind of belief incel online sites spread : “OK, we’ve all seen the statistic that in a competitive dating environment 20%...

This piece was written for a different purpose, but was never used.  So it wants to have its fifteen minutes of fame here: Fan...

In 2011 I wrote a series of posts on four 19th to 20th century female Finnish painters.  I found it still interesting*.  Another Finnish ...

A WaPo article (from last June) about the politics of various evangelical groups in the US points out something fascinating about the 2016...

I have written about the gross and net earnings gaps* many, many times.  It's the latter which we want to use when looking for possible...

First, these hilarious news about hacking voting machines : This weekend saw the 26th annual DEFCON gathering. It was the second time ...

Remember Caitlin Flanagan?  If not, I wrote about her anti-feminism a long time ago, more than once . Now she has come out in praise of ...

1.  A Japanese medical school has employed a unique solution to the female dominance in higher education: A Japanese medical school de...

This cartoon rings such a bell with me. Why has a socially awkward stick figure from Finland caught on with young people in China's ...

 (Sarah Wasko, Media Matters) The Proud Boys participated in Saturday's fascist demonstration in Portland Oregon, which made m...

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,...