ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

About ten years ago I spent quite a bit time surfing some of the nastiest male supremacy sites, and became very troubled by the trends I ...

My own fiction reading for pleasure is rapidly sliding back in history.  The further I am from the present era and its myriad problems, th...

The Nineteenth Amendment passed the US Senate exactly one hundred years ago , the House having passed it a few days earlier: The opening ...

I learned about Pekka Streng , a Finnish musician,  only yesterday.  He died in 1975 at the age of twenty-six, of cancer.  He knew that he ...

The other day.  He gave a short summary of the findings discussed in much more detail in the report his team wrote.*  There was nothing new...

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This is my final fundraising post!  You can donate all through the year, of course, but this would be a great time to do so and then you wo...

When I was little, my grandmother owned a very ramshackle farm where she lived with one aunt and two uncles of mine.  The place was a have...

Don't you just love the way Washington Post chose to write about Elizabeth Warren's past legal work?  I can't stop laughing....

Amazon is using the economic theory of tournaments in its warehouses!   That theory bases compensation on the relative productivity ranki...

Please give if you read here and can afford to give.  It takes a lot of chocolate to run my creative engine.  Just kidding.  But those of...

1.  US News does a Best Countries ranking which has several sub-indices.  There's even a methodology page where you can learn how the ...

Alabama's Republican governor , Kay Ivey, has signed the new abortion ban.  It criminalizes almost all abortions : Republican Gov. K...

You have to read Alexandra Petri's latest piece .  It imagines how the forced-birthers in Alabama, Georgia and other similar places wh...

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...