Assistant Village Idiot

We tend to have more sympathy for refugees, as they have usually suffered to some degree and have not chosen the lot which brings them away ...

I clicked on an article that said that Trump is Clinton's worst nightmare as an opponent.  I haven't the faintest idea if this is tr...

Related to the previous comment about language and culture.  Occupy Democrats is calling Obama's executive order "morally righteous...

It is a commonplace to say that the British are a people of mixed blood. I hope...to indicate a little how, when, and why this mingling of ...

Jonathan Haidt mostly gets it about liberals and conservatives.   He comments on libertarians as well, and what he reports seems about ...

Donna B (I think) mentioned this in a December comment section, and I have pondered it and adopted it.  What conservatives call a RINO (and ...

I put this up on FB today.  As my extended family and all my coworkers are liberal, I should expect some pushback.  Ah well. Imagine a pr...

I don't know much, but I'm liking that it's all providing evidence for my observed pattern.  Conservatives take a defensive resp...

A long rant, which I have held out for two weeks and is already undermined by my posts on Jonathan Haidt.  But here it is anyway. How is i...

I just can't get to the main topic, can I?  Well, I suppose the elephant and rider is the main topic.  Broke that rule last night, yelli...

We'll be going to the Currier Museum to see the Maxfield Parrish exhibit tomorrow, and will be taking the older granddaughter.  She ha...

I don't seem to be getting around to general comments on Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind , getting rabbit-trailed into interesti...

Regarding Jonathan Haidt's characterisation of our moral understanding as 90% intuitive and 10% rational - the Elephant and Rider - his ...

There has been a lot of commentary over the last few years - decades, really - about the problem with Muslims who are not violent or crimina...

Hammerfest Alert readers will remember that Chris lives above the Arctic Circle. He headed even farther north this year, giving nig...

I'm not going to do a review, but a series of shorter posts about topics covered. I was familiar with over half of this information, but...

The Short Cut (Known to But a Few) I (David) still tramp about in the local woods, and hope to do 5x more of it when I retire.   I ...