Jim Leff's Slog

Behold the Hovering Sky Baby Medical specialists — pediatricians and proctologists — probably believe themselves to occupy a higher plane ...

I am an old hand at not being on TV. There are more of us than you'd imagine. Let's survey the whole field from top down, from the p...

One can't deny an assertion without a reasonable understanding of what's been asserted. To deny an assertion because "it sounds...

Sometimes I'm fast-smart and sometimes I'm slow-smart (the rest is an uninteresting morass of confused incompetence). The fast-sma...

Some people can't be in pain or inebriated without being mean to others. Their kindness is a fragile facade that shatters under duress. ...

"Every one of us is a survivor of multiple encounters with the Unthinkable" Why does that read fresh and surprising? Why does ...

A musician recently died, and there is testimonial after testimonial about how he was the kindest, most wonderful person. I've read a ...

Every single person I've ever met is dumbfounded by the enormous irrationality of other people....even as they themselves are obviously ...

Choosing oranges is easy. Heavy = good, light = bad. Heavy is juicy. Light is dry. Water weighs more than dry pulp. Duh! Yet I’ve never se...

Truly competent people embrace challenge and correction. They never assume they've got the best or the only solution, and this makes the...