ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I wish you all a more clear-sighted, calm, rational and compassionate new year.  Also chocolate and love and all the other important things...

Would have to be " gaslighting ."  The wild, wonderful and frightening world of online politics is full of gaslighting, and that...

I have written about these annual global gender gap reports* before.  Here's the 2009 report, here's the 2015 report , and here ar...

The blog Feministing is ceasing its operations, New York Times tells us , while also telling us that the heyday of feminist blogs is over...

The case was this one : In late 2019, a years-old story about a hacker sentenced to prison in a case stemming from the infamous Steubenv...

About a week ago I  read a summary of a new Brookings Institute study on the prevalence of low-wage jobs in the US.  The study looked inte...

The Washington Post article on Elizabeth Warren's earnings from consulting for corporations has a great headline: Sen. Elizabeth W...

I recently came across that old argument that the existence of an "extreme male brain" is the real explanation for autism.  Given...

A Current Affairs article provides lots of interesting graphs about democratic socialism and its possible relationship to being able to h...

My favorite breakfast is a slice of very sour and dark rye bread with Swiss cheese and orange marmalade.  And bucketfuls of strong coffee. ...

1.  I was doing housecleaning on the blog and found a  post from last spring about how to interpret the gender gap in wages (between men an...

1.  I find it tough to write much in this Age Of Unreason.  What's the point of trying to dig up facts and logical arguments when they...

In the great state of Ohio a bill introduced in the state legislature doesn't just want to ban abortion completely.  It also wants ect...

1.  If nothing else comes out of the impeachment hearings, at least more people have become familiar with the term quid pro quo . 2.  It...

I have very very short hair, in a pixie cut.  I have worn two pairs of Converse All Stars to ground over the years, one black and one red ...

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...