Assistant Village Idiot

I was listening to some ESPN thing on the radio on my way home tonight and heard a show host ask Jemele Hill a moderately difficult opinion ...

This article on meritocracy showed up over at Maggie's.  I expected to have so much to disagree with that I would certainly not share i...

 Introduction to the Topic: First Century Palestine was a bubbling stew of competing beliefs.   Even if Jesus had not come during that tim...

I am noticing that mental health funding is not prominent here , despite the huge number of disability years and hospital bed-days.

I think the not listening part is what's important. That gets tricky.  That is also what Black Lives Matter claims.  There is a ce...

In discussing police practices, African-American crime, and excessive use of force there seems to be an underlying assumption all sides...