Assistant Village Idiot

Like Grandma Used To Make. I love myth-busting. BTW, my grandmother was a good cook, but I have abandoned her recipe for Swedish Meatballs...

The "Disgust in Politics" post is turning out sort of meh, but I will press on.  In the meantime I thought the way my sabbathkeep...

Last year the Red Sox had their greatest season ever.  This year they will not make the playoffs.  I am not paying much attention, except fo...

Firefox Pocket puts "interesting" articles before my eyes when I open a new tab. As they are geared toward what a general Firefox...

I am listening to the historical thriller podcast series 1865. It is a radio drama (an older form that I had forgotten how much I liked) and...

I noticed in a recent gay marriage discussion - a special context, as our small and tight-knit denomination decided to remove a church from ...

From an article in the Jewish Journal. Host Ebro Darden said there are “multiple corrupt governments working together” worldwide, citing I...

Just in case you were worried, there are levels beyond levels. I had a patient this week who has been drinking over 40 units a day, usually ...

I was composing a new post in my head about the politics of disgust.  I thought I had said something about it before, years ago, in the cont...

... got it right years ago.

It's all fun and games until the food snobs come along. And then more food snobs. Sandwich connoisseurs* know... The majority of Amer...

I forget you don't see what we see here in NH.  You would think Tulsi was the only person running for president at the moment.  Her peop...

Seems like everyone important covered this.  A good sign.

Progressive Cities have the worst housing inequality. Sometimes being against racism mostly means other people. October 2017 Obamacare wa...

I forgot to mention that I changed my party affiliation to "Undeclared" a few weeks ago.  In NH you don't say "Independen...

Some humor does not age well

I reviewed Charles C. Mann's 1493 , a follow-on to his 1491 . Both changed the way I looked at whole swaths of history, and I have rerea...

Hmm.  Perhaps I overestimated how much deep thought was going to result from Arthur C Brooks' essay. I am having many thoughts, but the...

Sponge-headed Scienceman informed me that Pat Boone had done a heavy metal album in the 1990s.  Even better, he has a copy of it, which he l...

James is letting his imagination run a bit.