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The People Who Long to Be Led
There are those who want to live in a society where no one person is absolutely in charge – no monarch, no dictator, no master – and...

Scott Robinson
Nov 4, 20222 min read


Worshippers of Men
As we look around today, we see tens of millions of people worshipping a man. They worship him so utterly that they will have no other...

Scott Robinson
Nov 4, 20222 min read


The Triangle of Doom
Heather Cox Richardson makes the point in her column1 that the Republican Party has been trapped for years in a “Triangle of Doom” - a...

Scott Robinson
Oct 31, 20224 min read


More Than a Feeling
There is near-universal consensus that the best Boston song was the first Boston song. “More Than a Feeling”, Track One of Side One of...

Scott Robinson
Oct 28, 202211 min read


Foreplay/Long Time
"Foreplay” / “Long Time” is an astonishing piece of work, certainly one of Boston’s greatest accomplishments. Many, including...

Scott Robinson
Oct 28, 202210 min read


Hitch a Ride
“Hitch a Ride” is the album’s hidden gem, tucked away in the middle of Side Two, away from the megahits up front and ensconced between...

Scott Robinson
Oct 28, 20227 min read


Star Trek, Humanism, and Tony Campolo
Tony Campolo’s book A Reasonable Faith had arrived two years after I’d heard him speak in Gatlinburg, at the Christian Student Fellowship...

Scott Robinson
Sep 11, 20226 min read


My Turkey Bacon Sandwich
Me (at keys) and Bob Holzner (on drums) and Keith Lloyd (on guitar) There was one bright spot in particular during the Highland...

Scott Robinson
Aug 21, 20223 min read


A Proper Nerd Vocabulary
Not all nerds are Word Nerds; but all Word Nerds are about… vocabulary. The Word Nerd loves their words, and wants more. More. More! The...

Scott Robinson
Aug 7, 20223 min read


Nerds: The Silent Generation
I’ve presented my own credentials above, and have stressed that this book is about the future – the training of the next generation as it...

Scott Robinson
Aug 5, 20224 min read


The Nerd's Life-Long Accumulation of Random Information and Useless Knowledge
So I’m in the car and my two sons, Steve and Trey, are in the back seat. “The Federated States of Micronesia are actually 607 small...

Scott Robinson
Aug 4, 20224 min read


Nerd Supremacy
It’s essential, of course, to think seriously about the challenges your young nerds will face, stacking up against the world’s...

Scott Robinson
Aug 3, 202210 min read


Entropy, Interrupted (long version)
Revisiting the work of physicist Jeremy England, we’re reminded that his new theory posits that the conflict between entropy (the idea...

Scott Robinson
Aug 3, 202211 min read


Beatlegay
Cynthia was not the only one who loved John deeply and was hopeful of intimacy with him. Brian Epstein felt pretty much the same way....

Scott Robinson
Aug 1, 20226 min read


Nature's Nerds
We must stress, from the outset, that to be a nerd is not an entirely learned skill. Nerds occur in nature: Gentoo penguins use D&D-style...

Scott Robinson
Jul 31, 202211 min read


The Dark Nerd
Then again... Could Batman do a credible job of being me? Bear with me, here, I’m perfectly serious: can we ask whether Batman could pass...

Scott Robinson
Jul 30, 20224 min read


The Dork Knight
It is natural, I think my Gentle Reader will agree, for any dad to want to be his kids’ hero. And, of course, when dad is a nerd, he has...

Scott Robinson
Jul 30, 20224 min read


Teenage Emo Grammy Queen
She came out of nowhere, looking like Wednesday Addams and a voice like Barbra Streisand and Tori Amos had a baby. Streisand, because...

Scott Robinson
Jul 30, 20222 min read


The Best Nickelback Jokes Ever
Without apology... Fire alarms should just play Nickelback. I left some Nickelback tickets on my dashboard. When I got back to my car,...

Scott Robinson
Jul 30, 20221 min read


In the Mind of the Nerd
So, we’ve looked at how nerds are defined and seen by others. But what, in the mind of the nerds themselves, are the distinctions? How do...

Scott Robinson
Jul 30, 20227 min read
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