ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

1.  Several interesting pieces have recently appeared about women who were first or early path-breakers in some field.  - This one talk...

By serendipity, I read two articles about pregnancy, one after the other, and then considered them together. The first tells us a piece o...

This year my fundraising will be more than a week, but on the other hand you won't get these begging posts every day!  Win-win. My he...

Politico.com has a new piece on Kamala Harris, one of the women among the contenders for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 presidentia...

She was quite wonderful i n slicing and dicing Barr's arguments for our main course.  Senator Mazie Hirono gives us a delectable not-...

Yes, my sweetings, it's that time of the year again!  I need your moneys so that I can afford to go on writing on this here site. My...

I use the Google US news page as a quick glance-through about the day's events when I start writing.  Some months ago it added a secti...

There was a time in America when most of the proposed forced-birth laws allowed for abortion in the case of rape.  Alas, this is no longer...

Remember when our Supreme Leader withdrew the US out of the twelve-nation Trans-Pacific partnership, the free trade deal Obama had begun t...

Microsoft is having its own Damore moment !  An internal discussion wonders if women are innately unsuited for engineering and similar fi...

1.  I caught myself in the online information bubble when I realized that my Twitter feed covered the New Zealand massacre and its afterma...

I take my humor where I can find it in this valley of grief (and of automatic vehicles and sex robots).  It's too bad that my sense of ...

The Pew global opinion surveys are very informative.  Two fairly recent ones deserve a closer look.  The first is from last December . ...

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...