ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

This post on Tucker Carlson, about women's primitive nature, is funny.  Or at least I think it is funny, but then I wrote it. Carlso...

(The post is from 2006!  It's so old that I can't get to it via the Blogger archives.) Poetry translates very poorly, which i...

( Svanen ( The Swan ), No. 17, Group 9, Series SUW, October 1914 – March 1915.)* Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was a Swedish painter ...

Masculinity and femininity are tricky concepts to define: They include both the way we interpret biological sex differences and the impact...

I wrote about the rationality or irrationality of the anti-vaccination movement last March , and concluded that the decision not to have on...

There have been recent cases where young people have died from Type I diabetes because of a combination of rapidly rising insulin prices a...

I struggle with it.  I wrote about my concerns last January , and also in 2018, in a post about how the selection of information we receive...

A recent NYT article notes a correlation between a man becoming a mass killer and earlier expressions of hatred of women: The man wh...

That was Friday night.  First I closed a heavy door over my left thumb.  I now have a brilliantly purple and green thumb.  Then I sat down ...

And why shouldn't she investigate?  After all, most political social media is creating conspiracy theories about Epstein's death, ...

1.  Toni Morrison , a Nobel laureate in literature, died on Monday at the age of 88.  Her books are an indispensable part of the American ...

The recent massacre in El Paso, Texas, carried out by a white supremacist,  turned the limelight on a hate site called 8chan.  That site is...

To truly get this post, you have to read my previous one .  This post builds on that. The debate Trump began with his vicious tweets about...

I've been reading on narcissism for a possible future article about the pro-narcissist online culture in places like Twitter.  That ...

Or will the "votes" of one Vlad "The Impaler" Putin override yours, if necessary, to guarantee the continuation of the...

I've been having fun listening to Mueller testifying before the House (and the Intelligence Committee) on the 2016  election interferen...

A week ago I decided to repaint the waist-high plywood paneling (scuffed and ancient) in one room.  It only comes to about waist level, so ...

Here's a not-so-reassuring story about our Dear Leader: When President Trump this week met human rights activist Nadia Murad, an Ir...

It's not news that Trump has racist and sexist views.  He ran on those views, after all.  So I am not particularly interested in tryin...

From recent news: Singer R. Kelly has been arrested in Chicago on federal sex crime charges, according to two law enforcement officials....