ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

The FBI published its hate crime report for 2018.  I read several media takes on its contents, then read the contents themselves, then turn...

1.  The New York Times has published several pieces on the cancel culture. I don't have razor-sharp views* on the questions those...

There was a time when all-male samples were not infrequently used to study the efficacy of some drug of treatment which, if the results wer...

A presentation * at the recent meeting of the American Society of Nephrology looks at live donor kidney (LDK) transplants in men and women...

You may remember this iconic picture of a young woman standing on the roof of a car during the revolution which ousted Sudan's presiden...

1.  A new study tells us something I have long suspected: For years now, Twitter has been an important platform for disseminating news...

A recent HuffPost article discusses a 2018 workshop aiming at teaching executive women how to thrive in a corporate environment.  The story...

The NPR has a story today about What Democrats Do Wrong .  Now those what-is-the-matter-with-the-Democrats stories are extremely common in...

This is the outcome of Trump's lunatic decision to withdraw US troops from northern Syria: During a six-hour meeting at the Black S...

It is the fall of 2019.   The president of the United States, the most powerful country on this planet, has impetuously and with no real u...

This year's economics Nobel went to (...opens the envelope very very slowly...) Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Abh...

This is the home page of the US Department of State today: That "Christian Leader" is the Secretary of State, Michael R...

Donald Trump got her killed by giving Recep Tayyip Erdo ğ an a green light to tell his thugs to go and kill her, by reassuring him that t...

1.  The president of the United States takes many of his talking points — and most of his political advice, it seems — from various right-...

The words from Our Supreme Leader's tweet today *, as a response to those who criticize him for arranging a genocide of the Kurds by th...

So I watched the press conference Trump and the president of Finland, Sauli Niinistö gave today.  It is wonderful comedy*.  If you don...

The United States has created another " coalition of the willing ," though this time it's not about occupying Iraq but about ...

1. I've been glued to my seat in this imaginary movie theater/cinema, clutching my bag of imaginary popcorn,  mesmerized by the Story O...

I put that take #238 in the title, because in a more rational world Trump would have been impeached for umpteen times already.  Maybe not 2...

I recently saw this 1569 portrait, painted by Antonis Mor, and immediately felt that it looked familiar in a very odd way. Here's...