Assistant Village Idiot

Nexuist on X   You ought to think about how bad every American school is at teaching and how bad every American university is at preparing ...

We were at Old Sturbridge Village, and Christmas Carols were sung at the lighting ceremony. I don't need the lyric sheets no matter how ...

 

Well, many of us wondered, y'know?

  Greatest fight of all time. I discussed it in 2018. Briefly, Hagler was the better fighter, but Leonard and his people outwitted him at e...

 I thought I would mix it up.  You should find something to like here.

I have added Dwarkesh Podcast , which is Dwarkesh Patel doing "Deeply researched interviews:"   They run 90-120 minutes, so they a...

When my brother worked at UC Irvine decades ago I complained about the lower academic standards for athletes, relative to the performance of...

There seems to be an evolutionary fitness advantage for males to be violent, or at least their used to be and it has probably not entirely d...

Lyman Stone, my favorite demographer - okay, the only demographer I know by name - has a go at the data to see what it shows. There are some...

Reposted from December 2006.  I have come back to this many times, as it is one of my most-visited posts. It is some of my best writing, loo...

David Samuels writing in Tablet: Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment , about the invincible Obama news-manipulation machine - think fiction ...

  10  Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our...

We had the classical station on in the car for a few minutes yesterday.  The lovely piece, by someone who was considered the greatest of the...

 

I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and...

 

Shopping background music is almost entirely secular now, but even that seems to be coalescing of various renditions of fewer and fewer song...

Two of our sons’ families had medical issues this year, but those are their stories to tell, not ours. It is enough to know that these affec...

It came up at book group today that there may be some connection between the last generations having fewer children and the longer periods t...