ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

1.  The first woman has won the coveted Abel prize in mathematics: Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck, a mathematician and professor at the Univ...

Jair Bolsonaro is the Trump Of The Tropics, an openly misogynist and racist guy who is also the current president of Brazil.  Given that, ...

Our Supreme Leader is waging a Twitter war against a dead man : Last weekend, Trump attacked the late senator in several tweets that tar...

The new USAA poll finds that Amid signs that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference may ...

Beto O'Rourke has thrown his hat in the Democratic presidential primary ring.  He is a charismatic guy, with the looks of a young Ken...

I have little of any use to say about it.  I wish peace, if at all possible,  to those who lost loved ones and I wish those who were wound...

Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, is a silver-tongued song-lark who hates women with a hatred stronger than a thousand su...

If you have never heard of Tucker Carlson you are very blessed.  He is a conservative loudmouth who, over the recent years, has slipped in...

Frank Bruni, an opinion writer at the New York Times , has a good take on what he calls the horror of anti-vaxxers, those who refuse to hav...

The 2019 International Women's Day is today, and it is also being slowly watered down in social media, at least in the countries I acc...

To honor the International Women's Day, the Italian far-right league in Southern Italy has published a pamphlet with this message: ...

If you, too,  have an infantile sense of humor, you will get a kick from the title of an email I received about the short menstruation docu...

Google has carried out its annual pay fairness study since 2012.  The study, which covers 91% of Google's employees, compares total emp...

In Saudi Arabia, women must have the permission of their male guardians (father, husband, brother, uncle or adult son) to travel.  A Saudi...

Called lanttulaatikko in Finnish.  It's a traditional Christmas side dish, served together with similar casseroles or loaf-shaped dishe...

1.  Autocrats and would-be autocrats apparently require unusual haircuts.  Picture from here . 2.  While Trump takes the front of...

Ageism is a weird -ism in American politics.  It frequently goes unnoticed, even among the cultural left, and especially when it targets th...

This cat is sitting on the terrace with his human.  Not loose in the environment, in other words.  Supposedly the first breakfast outside ...

These mini-posts are an attempt to look at depressing phenomena (political corruption, environmental pollution) from a slightly more positi...

This is a fun story about a proposed bill which is unlikely to pass, even in Oklahoma: Oklahoma state legislator Rep. Justin Humphrey (...