Assistant Village Idiot

Celtics backup center Luke Kornet has a strange strategy on blocking 3-pointers. Instead of going out to try and block the shot, leaving the...

 

We did not travel much early in our marriage.  We did not have money for it, small children are something of a project to shuffle about on p...

We prefer the myth, especially when William Goldman writes the script ("Who are those guys?" in the tracking scene), but our adven...

Behold, a new online magazine, Asterisk . They seem to have enough interesting topics going that I will consider putting them on my sidebar ...

The days will shorten even more in the next week, but this is about the minimum length of day for them. The sun rises around noon and sets a...

Glad that's settled.

 The Salvation Army ringers apparently have to say "Happy Holidays" now if they are in front of a state liquor store or a supermar...

Really Very Crunchy goes to a crunchy cookie party .  We used to have a similar situation forty years ago when the boys started going to Mon...

Small point, but one I think is overlooked even among people who think statistically and proababalistically. A correlation can be high but t...

Astral Codex Ten continues to have a comments section that is as good a discussion as you will find anywhere. Scott Alexander reviewed David...

Razib has sent me more - he must find that this type of promotion works for him on full subscriptions - so if you are interested (Alpha Omeg...

 Listening to Steve Hsu interview Rob Henderson (both on my sidebar), they began discussing moral idealism and high moral dudgeon of the you...

An old carol. This is not the oldest version, but I very much like it.

In A Grief Observed , CS Lewis described a brief encounter of a presence of "H" (Helen Joy) shortly after her death. The second pa...

 Gaudete, "celebrate," as in gaudy.

An old lesson from the psychiatric biz that I remind you of here. When the nurses would say about someone "He doesn't do well takin...

If it seems I have been spending an inordinate amount of time on reflections on reflections on the last 60 years of my life and the characte...

We have gone over the likelihood here that the discouragement of cousin marriage has had an enormous influence on Western Civilisation. Rich...

They have only one child, it seems, but they take that one everywhere in all weather.  I did not once see a family with a third child.Someho...