ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

The second volume of the Mueller report asks if the president of the United States, one Donald Trump, obstructed or tried to obstruct justi...

I just finished reading the first half of the report which covers the Mueller investigation into possible collusion between people in the ...

This TPM piece casts light on a very interesting phenomenon in American presidential politics:  The desire to elect a king, a figurehead, a...

The burning of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris makes my heart heavy.  So much beauty, so much history, so much art expressing human spiri...

Of course we all knew that this would happen: As the world stared in wonder this week at the first image of a black hole, a new star...

1.  Katie Bouman had an important role to play in the development of the computer program which made the black hole photograph possible: ...

Out with the old and in with the new!  It's that time of the year, the time to sweep out the cobwebs and to notice that windows might a...

 The Equal Pay Day 2019 was last Tuesday, the 2nd of April.  It's a day created to remind us how much longer women, on average, must ...

Agnes Varda has died at the age of ninety : Agnès Varda, a groundbreaking French filmmaker who was closely associated with the New Wave...

The Sultan of Brunei, with age, seems to have become more and more religiously fanatic and rigid.  He is an autocrat in Brunei, an oil-ric...

Christopher Ingraham has written some fascinating stuff in yesterday's Washington Post about how often American adults have sex.  Wit...

1.  These cartoons by Karoliina Korhonen are about the introverted nature of native Finns.  If you are an introvert, too, you may like th...

These snippets are from my recent readings. 1.  Given that conspiracy theories (Pizzagate, Perfect Storm) are now an integral aspect of p...

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...