Assistant Village Idiot

 Looking for another old camp song, circa 1959, I came across this one. I asked my wife if she had sung it at Girl Scout camp, and she assur...

 From Stephen Hopkins, @ phil_lol_ogist on X Someone at Trader Joe's never studied the Middle Ages  

  The harmonies get more complex as it goes

The American Conservative has a recent article How to Break the Sanctuary States . Eigenrobot at X extracted a key section That is why I rec...

Linus* once stated "There is no greater burden than a high potential." I felt that deeply when I read it in the 60s. I am more amb...

The trend toward adversity points for college admissions is another way to increase the advantage of upper-middle-class white kids rather th...

Listening to Ryan Glasspiegel today talking about why he bet on Harris late in the campaign. He reasoned that it was looking like a tossup, ...

I have been a person who waited until the very end to cut and put up the Christmas tree. It echoed not my own childhood (though we were late...

I won't be doing them every day, as I do when I start in Advent.  This year will be more irregular. This is the warmup. When I sang thi...

I'm not sure how much of this I agree with, but I would have agreed with a lot less of it before I read it. So in the interests of passi...

'These rabbits who claim to have the second sight—I've known one or two in my time. But it's not usually advisable to take much ...

We have had discussions here about nationalism versus internationalism throughout the whole nineteen years. Not once have any of us resorted...

David Foster over at Chicago Boyz has a discussion of tariffs with both some standard reminders and some less-common arguments. From Point ...

 They had a few of these from their Hamburg days, including "Sie Liebt Dich"

There was a fascinating case of South Korean twins reared apart after one was lost at the market when they were two years old and after fost...

We have read this book aloud at Christmas every year since the 1980s, and my wife invariably chokes up at about the same time Imogene does, ...

 I remember this. A rather perfect moment. I hadn't realised it was almost twenty years ago now. I had heard about Flutie early, as my ...

Maybe not.  No one in a hundred mile radius raises them for sale. The deliveries from Tennessee, Iowa, Oregon, and South Dakota are wicked e...