Assistant Village Idiot

I recall being part of reproducing an experiment in a class in college.  It worked so consistently that the professor had his class repeat i...

Okay, so everyone must have noticed, but did people comment on the obvious right out loud in those days? Related: Mike Ditka's first Via...

The newborn with the heart condition from Juneau, medevaced to Anchorage and then waited for a clear airport, a bed, and then a surgery in S...

Now that I pretty clearly need to be gluten-free, though I came to this conclusion kicking and screaming, I figure I will do something other...

I first learned about the color philly mort in David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed . The list of things I first learned about in ...

The essay, which I first saw in God In The Dock , is an excellent example of Lewis's ability to take something that I had dimly perceive...

I am not much of a hockey fan - have only written on it a few times over the years - but I do glance at the standings once in a while and wi...

The Media Very Rarely Lies over at Astral Codex Ten. Scott Alexander shows how the NYT and Scientific American do exactly the same sort of ...

I just got some cheese for belated Christmas, including Norwegian sweet brown cheese.  I like it very much, but it is best served very thin ...

Ed West over at Wrong Side of History , his substack site gives us The last shall be first and the first last his review of Tom Holland...

I recall Lewis discussing his reviewers (it may have been concerning Out of the Silent Planet ) and rhetorically asking how many times a wri...

Looks like about three dozen deaths from that blizzard in Buffalo , which we talked about last week. In our fussing over our own inconvenien...

“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is...

Canadian author George Case over at Quillette revives George Orwell's essay on inflated, inaccurate writing Politics and the English La...

I still have free one-month subscriptions to Razib Khan's substack if anyone is interested. I think he gave me more because I moved the ...

 The "feast of Stephen" is St Stephen's Day, in case the obvious eluded you, as it did me for years. But was he real? we ask i...

"I am a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason. A great deal of demo...

All of a sudden I am seeing this name I know nothing about show up everywhere, enough so that young people with pretensions will be tempted ...

 

James has a brief story, and links to a poem by Eliot. What must the Magi have thought years later ? It reminds me also of Simeon, who was t...