Assistant Village Idiot

 

This looks like you could take it a lot of places in American and fit right in. Here's a lot more, if you'd like it.     

The NBA just put down it's biggest punishment of a team in 80 years. The Los Angeles Clippers have been disciplined for evading the sala...

There's not a lot of specifically Orcadian music on YouTube, but I'll give you a few. It sounds much like other Celtic and more dist...

 Leaving now.  Back on the 14th. I have preposted some things to keep you entertained, as usual.

Cremieux writes about what he calls Cargo Cults in science : things that attempt to work without knowing the principle behind it. He chooses...

 ...sung in the UK.  Very appropriate for going to Orkney, ja? 

I recall reading descriptions on what percentage of people form their opinions by trusting authority versus subjective impression versus soc...

  What Question is God Asking You? I Got It Wrong   about Bernie Sanders supporters Men and Women Offended/Not Offended in a work context. ...

Fifteen years ago I wrote a series May We Believe Our Thoughts which covered some of the popular edges of the science, philosophy, and refl...

I have been so impressed that the woman who wrote 3000 songs, recorded 300 of them, and saucily embraced the cartoonish character snobby eli...

 "I had a dog once who could sing 'Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine,' but I had to get rid of him. (This is the first time...

I have made many references to Motte-and-Bailey arguments over the last couple of years. It is a new phrase in the last decade or two, but ...

There are some creative endeavors where I think "I wish I had thought of that," because I admire it and it is the sort of thing I ...

 LOL no longer means "laughing out loud," it just means  funny,  which is milder. You have to say "Literally laughed out loud...

Bethany has a new piece this morning about conspiracy theories using some true facts but leaving out others. Down The Rabbit Hole, One True ...

I started a deep ancestry post over a month ago, trying to summarise the radically new stuff we have learned over the last 10-15 years.  It ...

 Turns out there is none after all.  And this is from UNICEF, who were the ones who declared the famine last year.  “The whole system is bui...

There are wild claims left and right about daycare helping the whole country and economy versus damaging children to the point of trauma. Wh...

It is unlikely I will ever be a worship leader again. It is one of those things I do just well enough to hold the fort until an actual talen...