ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

  The Online Incel Movement As Domestic Terrorism   While lounging in my sick bed I bookmarked lots of stuff for potential blog posts, becau...

I am trying to put together links to the most useful blog posts from my archives (which span almost seventeen years), especially on the topi...

Only because someone might be interested in the life of a mild case of the coronavirus. I caught it around the tenth of February, without kn...

Here is a picture of Donald Trump someone created online.  My apologies for not finding the creator, to provide proper credit: Why it is a f...

I have never ridden a horse though I have sat in a sled pulled by a horse, called Lotta.* Okay.  That's the entirety my post title produ...

My apologies for the silence on the blog.  I  have not been well.  Things will resume when they can.  In the meantime, Black Lives Matter.  ...

1.  I am not a fan of rigid gender/sex roles, because they are one of the main channels which have historically been used to keep women seco...

Remember my earlier post about the games Trump, as a great narcissist, plays?  One of narcissistic tricks is to start a new game when it lo...

This Guardian story about the "coronavirus slayer" of Kerala makes for interesting reading.  Kerala's fight against covid-19...

Joe Lockhart asks why so few editorial boards of newspapers are calling for Trump to resign.  He contrasts that silence to what happened ...

Eons ago, in 2017, president Trump still had his own Rasputin standing behind the throne and whispering in his ear:  Stephen Bannon. Bann...

1.  Those who vociferously protest against the stay-at-home-orders are a small minority .  They are not representative of any large group o...

1.  Things you notice while self-isolating:  The Decline Of The Humble Garlic. What happened to garlic?  Once upon a time a head of garli...

The New York Times analyzed Trump's comments about the current pandemic from March 9 to mid-April.  The results will not surprise yo...

The latest terrible mass slaughter in Nova Scotia, Canada made me think about the demographic characteristics of mass killers.  Most violen...

He may have done that to toss some raw meat to his base, but his main reason has to do with narcissism (see this post for more information...

A. I see the law of the hammer ("I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were ...

1.  The daily numbers about people dying from Covid-19 and about new cases found through testing are useful information, but when they are...

I used to write, all the time,  about Trump's inane statements, about his ignorance, his lack of interest in learning and about his ex...

1.  One study strongly suggests that sexism played some role in Elizabeth Warren's performance in the primaries: Data for Progr...