Jim Leff's Slog

One of the omnipresent features of earthly life that completely mystifies me is entitlement. It's such a simple idea, yet it showers str...

I've revised and improved this posting from 2023. I've had the impression since childhood that the universe is trying to teach me...

There is a level of stupidity that only smart people can attain. Extraordinary skill and mental firepower are needed to reach the absolute...

The problem with making an edge case of yourself (in any respect) is that it becomes painfully obvious when people lapse into framing specif...

In a recent posting titled "Sharpening" , I wrote: Many people can guess the current time to the minute whenever they pop awake ...

How far away is another frame? Impossibly far yet immediately accessible. It sounds like a trippy puzzle, but there's nothing spook...

A strange form of behavior is becoming more and more common. I've coined the term "recircumcision," which hopefully evokes a b...

The problem with intuition is that it can be hard to distinguish useful intimations from suggestions of what you want to happen, or are afr...

Mocking old people is like booby trapping the rollercoaster you're queued to ride.

My whole life, I've worked into a headwind because of my looks. It's not that I'm particularly horrible looking, but more than o...