Mixed-handed

I write and eat right-handed.  I throw left-handed.  I kick left-footed.  This is known as mixed-handedness, or cross-dominance. Now please note that ambidexterity—considerable fine motor skill with either side—is a rare form of cross-dominance, but it’s not what I’m talking about.  I mean I write with my right and can’t with my left.  I can’t … Read more

“…they cling to…antipathy toward people who aren’t like them…”

Everyone remembers Barack Obama railing against the “bitter” who “cling to guns or religion.”  But the “antipathy toward people who aren’t like them” was also part of that gem, and in my view it’s shaping up to be a presidency-defining quote.  Charles Krauthammer wrote a great column on that forgotten part of it yesterday. His … Read more

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