ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

The New York Times has posted a piece on the possible impact of Trump Care [ sic ] on how many people have health insurance: The numbe...

Here is an example of a "when the shoe is on the other foot" story (1).  I use the term in roughly the same sense as I use the t...

The poet Mary Oliver died on Thursday at the age of eighty-three.  The New York Times obituary addresses her poetry, her popularity amon...

Tammy Bruce, a guest on Fox & Friends, a right-wing political television show, gave such a brilliant example of everything that can go...

1.  I believe that Trump sees his government shutdown as a game of chicken .  The big problem for a narcissistic man is that he is playing...

The attempts to Hillarize* Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are wonderful to watch.  The right-wing apparatus tries everything they can think of, ...

Did you know that likability is a tremendously important characteristic in American politics?  Politicians shouldn't run if they are n...

The World Economic Forum has published an annual global gender gap report since 2006*.  Four sub-indexes are aggregated to get an overall ...

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...