Assistant Village Idiot

 Tell me if you hear or read anyone who actively retracts a previous Trump/Russia position. 

 Pinay sa Alaska  

  I increasingly find I cannot even tell the past, let alone the future. But I want to tell both and am trapped between them.

Global Warming Catastrophists . Is the National Wildlife Federation mainstream and respectable enough for you? Because this is from page 1 o...

On a slide show presentation I saw today, I saw an old ad that showed people having a picnic.  It had a blanket spread on the ground and a p...

 ...to read Niall Ferguson, interviewed by Nathan Gardels of Noema : America is in a Late Republic Stage - Like Rome.   I admit that I am ti...

Book club discussed Virgil Wander tonight. I found the discussing of it more enjoyable than the reading of it.  The plot starts slowly, and...

 

  Looks like quite a week.  I hope Aurora can stop looking at her phone and talking with boys to learn this.

I am usually suspicious of such claims.  Dime novels were supposed to ruin youths, as were radio, artificial light, television, rock music, ...

Science fiction used to have great fun hypothesizing further senses that an alien might have, beyond or instead of our traditional five. But...

 Scrooge was a Liberal. Mystery People Vs Research People  Or is this a Male/Female difference? The Little Black Egg   Cost of Your Health C...

I taught my students the 'Iliad.' Then they went to war.  by Ido Hevroni, professor of Classics at Shalem College in Israel. Amir ap...

This occurred to me because we are thinking of visiting Halifax. My mother and her then-boyfriend* were big Kingston Trio fans, so I grew up...

 This guy is providing a public service.  But does it work?  

 I am suspicious of the theories that explain modern human inefficiencies as evolutionary leftovers that no longer work.  It is not because ...

"All models are wrong, but some are useful." George Box 1976.  He was an applied statistician. "The truth is too complicated ...

When you link to an illusionist's performance you start getting lots of magicians on YouTube. It's been fun.  

 This is nothing like my usual topics, and I only read the first few paragraphs and skimmed the rest.  But I know that some of you think abo...

 I went to a Woosox game last night, partly because of wanting to see Red Sox players who might come up, but mostly because I like seeing th...

So I did.

Over at City Journal, Rioting Mainly for Fun and Profit  by Charles Fain Lehman The summer of 2025 has not yet officially begun, but it alre...

Thinking about supermarkets and my grandmother led immediately to memories of S&H Green Stamps and Raleigh Coupons . She smoked two pac...

What do you do when you don't like the song but everyone wants you to play it? You don't go half-way.  You pull out all the stops.  

Supermarkets are one of those places that retain their old name long after they have been sold and resold and haven't been called that f...

It's the beginning of a new outdoor season, and he is going to take it up a little bit at a time, to break the record over and over. He ...

For those of you who enjoy learning and thinking about the costs and efficiencies of suburban rail and metros, there is this from Works In P...