Assistant Village Idiot

 Reading back some genealogical info from the Nova Scotia side of the family , I came across a reference to the house they grew up in, and a...

It is a favorite head-shaker among conservatives to wonder why black voters remain so in thrall to the Democratic Party, even though there a...

A commenter over at Steve Sailer's: This accords with my observation that conservatives are very shrewd at seeing the direction of soc...

Chatting on Skype with Son #4 in Norway, I realised for the first time that all four sons work over 50 hours a week. (And now Kyle has a PT ...

A lot of folks around here say "sherbert."  Is that a regionalism to New England or is that more common?  I say "sherbet,...

Dr. Frances is highly critical of pharmaceutical companies in the video I embedded below.  I don't disagree, and I have heard many docto...

Steve Sailer offers a theory that had not occurred to me : the intense focus on the issue of gay marriage may be (whether consciously or no)...

We can identify a group of individuals who were abused, and not merely have to rely on their subjective memory of what happened. Where the ...

Dr. Joy Bliss over at Maggie's, who I often have significant disagreement with, has put up the remarkable video by Dr. Frances about ov...

I discussed the phenomenon of Game once before , and physics prof Steve Hsu just referenced it in relation to an HBO series written and d...

Classic American car lovers, don't miss Retriever's artistic photos of the car show .

A commenter at Steve Sailer's asked what they hell I meant by social signalling, in discussing language usage.  We have used the term of...

My brother is fond of challenging "What do you mean better ?" Whenever someone uses the word.  It's a fair point.  We sometime...

I have two middle-aged friends - both social workers - involved in one of the local leagues.  One is a referee as a side job, the other help...

When we teach Sudanese Sunday School in Manchester, the adults have worship at the same time. They were playing videos of a church in S...

I used to think Oh, are the Clintons running again? Now I just think Yes. You certainly are.

The Daily Mail has a remarkable series of photos of England at the time of Elizabeth's coronation. This is the GB Americans keep h...

My grandmother had this as a 78 for her wind-up record player. It was still workable until late in my childhood, and I got a kick out of...

I wrote a month ago that the Red Sox were a .500 team because they were first in runs scored, with only  few teams in their range, and worst...