Assistant Village Idiot

NH has had vanity plates for a long time, and still has a high percentage of them. I always thought it was a very sensible libertarian way f...

I fell off a bread truck onto my elbow over 10 weeks ago driving my humerus into my rotator cuff.  Three of the four tendons are completely ...

My DIL is weeding books from the town library, and discovered a songbook from 1992 which has never once been taken out. It has "Sippin...

Anyone can support you when you are right, moral, and making sense.  The fanatic's test is whether you can support them when they are wr...

If someone says "I'm sorry IF..." that could mean they don't think they did anything wrong, it's just you being overse...

Why Would You Study That?   People who study sexual and ethnic differences in humans are often challenged for doing it at all.  Aporia pla...

 I remember that these were fun for about fifteen minutes.

We want the people in the way of our loved ones' salvation to be cleared out.  No mercy for them. It isn't just evangelicals.  A Cat...

Virginia Postrel on how live sports saved television .  Sports were so perfect for television that many feared the new medium would devasta...

Buying three airplane seats that can be folded into a bed , for one, two, or three people.  Work is essential to happiness I didn't lear...

  Niall Ferguson believes we are headed for a recession .  I'm surprised it isn't already here.  Stunned by the economic consequence...

Nellie Bowles at The Free Press, following up on Kristi Noem and the expensive border commercial.  I love her writing.   Representative Ale...

 Not the best version, but the one I grew up on.   

Scott Alexander, who is a psychiatrist, discusses the tradeoffs versus failures of schizophrenia as a jumping off point to discuss the pheno...

I have been thinking of this, because...I've been walking the dog and I can't get it out of my head.*  *Having written that, I have ...

David Foster has a new substack post " Destroying the Passwords, " about the erasure of history from a culture, starting with the ...

I watched ABC news with the sound off for a few minutes at someone else's house tonight. I could tell from the images alone what the sla...

We have discussed JB Phillips's book Your God Is Too Small here before, quite a few times in twenty years.  But two of the posts, Senti...

I  never saw the movie, only a few stills. But I could play a record until the grooves wore through to the other side, and of course I read ...

The Dwarkesh Patel interview with Terence Tao . I am always surprised at how young Patel is: 25. He started this podcast when he was 19.  Ta...