Assistant Village Idiot

Once you know the principle behind it, you start to see the M&B fallacy everywhere. "Oh, so you're saying there's no racis...

I have only small items to add, as the knowledge (and almost certainly wisdom) of these writers exceeds mine. Read through before clicking a...

This surprised me - he was not born until more than another decade after this came out and didn't come to America for fifteen years afte...

Update: In response to a matter than came into our family - the Iditarod musher from NH who was going to be staying with my family in Nome h...

I have discovered, while looking for something else, that I was far afield in hip-hop/rap origins. If I had been more familiar with Jamaican...

When he finally got to it, Ben had varied possibilities from his 8thG through Freshman college years, including several by Counting Crows d...

I went to the supermarket to pick up the donated food for a local halfway house and they asked if we wanted eggs. I was sure they did so I t...

I got caught up in listening and reading about what people involved in related sciences are saying in retrospect about the early responses t...

There is also capacity by state at the link.

Son #5 is actually a nephew, though we became guardians until he was 18. He came to us at age 12, amidst a good deal of chaos and acrimony b...

It's always a fun game to play, of trying to push the timeline backwards, to "This was the beginning of Rock and Roll" by play...

Since I put up the video from the Ukranian Voice Contest, my sidebar has become 50% people dancing at Ukrainian Weddings. The dances are...v...

Kyle ran across these and forwarded them to the family, which was fun, because I have always liked them and have a small collection off the ...

Mos Craciun, "Father Christmas," is a simple traditional song that my sons knew from being in a Transylvanian village in the 90s. ...

I looked over at my own predictions early in 2020 and also some others that I referred to then. The prize has to go to Greg Cochran over at ...

Selfishness beats altruism within groups; altruistic groups beat selfish groups.  Everything else is commentary. David Sloane Wilson and E.O...

Okay, now I have to include this one.  I wondered what to put up for my own nostalgia about  JA and Chris, who came to America in 2001, whe...