Assistant Village Idiot

I left out one of the better examples.   Gladwell reports on a psychobiography   of Elvis that explores why he consistently forgot the t...

I have noted in my Underground DSM-IV (I have not updated) that the substance abuser who says they will do “whatever it takes” to get so...

Just sayin', evangelicals get called out when they make morally questionable statements - which is fair. So...professors at a Roman Cath...

Mr. Gladwell has a series of 30+ podcasts entitled “Revisionist History.” I’ve listened to about half of them and they are fun and somew...

I haven't disliked Senator Hassan .  She was governor before going to DC, and I thought genuinely tried to do the right thing in hard si...

I have mentioned several times over the decade that while intelligence has been the most important quality for prospering in the West for th...

I don't think we can move forward on the Kavanaugh nomination until we know which Beatle he most identifies with.

Twitter has banned HBDchick, who used to be on my sidebar.  I removed her after she had not posted in over a year, though she was still twee...

First real post since coming back from my cage. As I will be spending some time later detailing where I think Gladwell is wrong, it is fai...

I received permission from the doctor to be upright again, but on the ride home kept thinking "I really must put my head down again so...

With Pops out of commission and all (oh yeah, by the way he's fine and not dead, and I was supposed to mention that about 3 days ago), ...

Seeing that my "nearby" person did not see fit to update you all, I will report that the surgery was a success, and I really disli...

Thank you to Sam L for putting me on a train of thought that led to putting up an open thread for all of you to talk amongst yourselves.  A ...

Odd things always show up when I check out my stats every month or so.  This time I found that the site Boston 1775 has referred people her...

We all try to have simplified narratives about other countries, so that we can put them aside without taking up too much space in our heads....

We didn't write in each other's yearbooks because they arrived too late, after we had already graduated.  Some people may have broug...