Assistant Village Idiot

So, consider the source.  Providr is not a science site, it is an Interesting News Site, with writers who are likely not that savvy about wh...

Part of the difficulty of a trip is what awaits you upon return. There was condensation dripping from all the cold water pipes in the baseme...

If you want to understand why people's political reasoning is so bad, listen to sports reasoning. I have made no study of whether libera...

Heading to the Finger Lakes in short hops driving. We will stop for historical markers along the way, as usual. Well, NY and VT anyway.  We ...

John Kass thinks they are symptoms of a sick culture.  I disagree. I don't think it is reasonable to draw conclusions about an entire c...

I will give with one hand, and take away with the other. Conservatives and Republicans, even those who are not big fans of Trump, are incr...

Looking for others, I found this Naragansett commercial. Okay, I'll have another.

The arguments of the Sovereign Citizens about self-definition trumping societal intrusion are remarkably similar to the arguments transgende...

This came up today. Okay, I brought it up. Reposted from 2009. This projective test was popular in the 1940's and 50's. The th...

I have declared more than a few times that social pressure is a large part of liberalism. I have previously said that the conservative oppos...

Some lists have this rated the greatest music video of all time.  Ranked highly by all, certainly. I had the song on my Johnny Cash CD colle...

Waiting for the doctor today, I wondered whether I should rise when she entered the room. I never have before.  Certainly if one is in a joh...

I have given away almost everything by CS Lewis at one time or another, and then have had to, in time, buy it again.  A few years ago I reso...

I sang this in a band called Carroll County in 1973. Standard for CS&N, it's all about the sound. Nice harmony.  They very much ...

I read years ago that one difference between British and American humor is that the former relies on an entire humorous situation while the ...

"Petty is undefeated." Former Cleveland Cavaliers GM David Griffin on why Brad Stevens got no votes for Coach of the Year. He has ...

The way the colors landed plays out well for conservatives, who get the red pill, representing reality. I don't know if that was intende...

My sons and I were trying to remember the name of a game we had played on our old 386 computer. It turned out to be Darkspyre , which came o...

The discussion of Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote came up again over at Althouse. The World Series is up to seven games. The firs...

I've read a lot of suicide notes in my life, or rather, I haven't.  By definition, the suicidal people who come to my hospital are o...