Assistant Village Idiot

I told a story to a friend/acquaintance about a person who had done wrong but was now deceased. "Boy, his wife is going to have a few t...

In answer to the obvious question, of course I remembered the theme song. Got a few words wrong, though.

(Bumped because of Comments) I am set on my heels in the evaluation of "Darn Nice People."  I have learned more than I am willin...

I don't find abortion mentioned often in HBD writing, except occasionally in the context of sex-selection or speculations about selectin...

I am listening to all fifty songs in the mix. I love them and want to take them all home.

There is much deploring going on about the unbearable lightness of the gospel in America. Well, it's what we teach the children, certain...

Misuse - and perhaps even use - may increase cancer risk . Tom McAllister, a witty and brilliant neuropsychiatrist (was at Dartmouth, now ...

I can hear the echoes. I hope the book comes out soon. Sippican Cottage: I Must Not Do It

I have repeatedly stated my admiration for Jonathan Haidt's work, but because I am who I am with natural suspiciousness, I usually only ...

That is, Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders.  The teaser over at HBD chick's was " Yes, You Can Catch Insanity ,"...

A nephew who is many years into grad school sent this article about skimming instead of reading closely . He worried that he would feel he w...

I have a longstanding dislike for small group guides for Bible studies or Christian books. They seem to leap from the overspecific What does...

Many of you have likely seen this long essay in Slate Star Codex from last fall, I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup . It needs an e...

Three of us who have been in the NH mental health system for many years, at different agencies, were discussing a heartbreaking patient we h...

I heard Patrick Buchanan on the radio, and I have read his recent writings over at Unz, where he is called Mr. Paleoconservative.” He i...

Van der Leun posted this today. It hits me at my greatest area of temptation, I think. “The settled happiness and security which we all desi...

I have concluded that I am trying to understand two, and perhaps three separate phenomenon about Nice People, which causes it all to be mudd...

Garry Trudeau, who I have criticised roundly before, has a recent piece in the Atlantic about Charlie Hebdo magazine's staff being kil...

Sent along by a regular reader with the comment:" Well, that's one way to convince people vaccines area good idea. "

James has a comparison of pop and country lyrics that is both serious and fun. I don't listen to either, really.  I don't listen ...