ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I have an iatrogenic illness.  Caught a bad head cold from my physician during a routine well-goddess-check visit.  Later I coughed so ha...

This late fall and early winter have been difficult for me, and it shows in the paucity of my literary output here.  We are now almost two...

Peter Beinart has written a piece for the Atlantic Monthly on what ties together the various forms of right-wing authoritarianism we see ...

(The title is a pun based on my previous post about how feminists are disappearing men). When I first came to the US I found the reporti...

Tucker Carlson, one of the right-wing pundits slowly slipping and sliding from mere misogyny and general bigotry to white nationalism and ...

" Yell loud enough at a female leader and eventually she’ll go away. Convince her that her disappearance is necessary for the party...

1.  It's the Finnish Independence Day today.  Wave a little Finnish flag for me. Here's a nice winter pastime popular amon...

This is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau now , under the leadership of Trump appointee Mick Mulvaney: One year after Mulvaney’s ...

1. This is beautiful In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself astray in a dark wood where the straight road had been l...

This table* about the demographics of the 116th Congress is fun to analyze:   To see what it tells us about how representative the ne...

Heim Yankel in the comments directed me to a Lawyers, Gun and Money post which, in turn, directed me to the following YouTube response to J...

1.  It has long been a custom for newspapers to publish those articles they have to publish but which go against that particular newspaper...

1.  I eagerly look forward to all the stories in the New York Times and the Washington Post about people who voted for the Democrats in ...

1.  In Ireland the defense in rape cases can still use various forms of "what was she wearing" to defend the accused.  Here is...

The murders of two women, Nancy van Vessem and Maura Binkley,  and the wounding of five other individuals at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, ...

I watched Trump's recent press conference in its entirety, because I was bored and felt a little masochistic.  Then I took notes, to fi...

You write fourteen years and what do you get? A whole lot older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me coz I can't g...

All I wanted for Christmas was the House.  That's all.  And I believe that parcel is under the tree. I didn't write about the el...

1.  Thousands of Google employees walked out on Thursday, to protest sexual harassment which the protesters said the leadership has not ta...

The midterms are coming and the Democrats, despite their wishy-washiness and milquetoast demeanor might actually gain a few seats in the Ho...