Assistant Village Idiot

 I'll stick with French-Canadian music for a few days.   

 The Canadians have a great national anthem.  

We will be in Quebec City for a few days.  I would not leave you bereft of entertainment here.   Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow   Rob Henders...

 Warning: Political Ideology May Impair Your Ability To Reason  Steve Stewart-Williams  The news isn’t all bad. The researchers also found t...

  Tylenol and Autism:  Cremieux brings a new study from Japan.  It is a great example of how researchers can systematically remove biases an...

My granddaughter plays flute in the pep band for Goffstown Area High School.  The outlook has not been sunny in football for Mudville this y...

The show always slips my mind, but whenever it is mentioned I remember how much I love it.  

There is temporary stick-on graffiti in Canterbury Cathedral.   You can read all about the people who dislike it or are embarrassed about it...

 Shield of Skuld is a relatively new substack about Vikings - myths, language, literature - by Irina Manea.  That's a Romanian name, so...

 Fascism Can't Mean Both a Specific Ideology and a Legitimate Target  By Scott Alexander at ACX. We must not forbid the term, for it has...

 Douglas2's comment has been added. It goes in a different direction than the rest of us.

Is Donald Trump a Socialist?  Tyler Cowen is a libertarian economist The Origins of Homo longi and the Denisovans . This is available only ...

Wikipedia: According to the model of the five stages of grief , or the Kübler-Ross model , those experiencing sudden grief following an abr...

The Free Press is holding a debate about whether we would be safer without the Second Amendment.  In announcing it, Isaac Grafstein writes t...

So many good versions, but I had never heard this one.  R&B foundation, some country, some Dixieland.  Nice mix.  

Phantoms...who had faced the journey to the bus stop-perhaps for them it was thousands of miles-and come up to the country of the Shadow of...

Jordan Peterson is not doing well physically, and his daughter has announced that the cause is A, the cause is B, or maybe even spiritual wa...

 Why Warm Countries Are Poorer Tomas Pueyo.  Lew Kwan Yu used air conditioning to develop Singapore. The sunbelt didn't develop until a...

 "If everyone would just recycle one more used bicycle tire a year, we could save the Perito Moreno Glacier and the Dragon of Patagonia...

This is the History of the West you thought you knew.  How the West Was Wrought by Razib Khan.Then suddenly, you are looking at things from...