Assistant Village Idiot

I have been tagged twice this week: once by Kate at The Clay Friar , who directs that I list five things about myself that I have not blogge...

Relative Poverty is all the rage now, and conservatives are very suspicious of it. Meeting basic needs would seem to be our essential respo...

We have a family tradition of a trip for high school graduation. The first three boys, we could make reservations with confidence, and we h...

By my method, I have 113 points (the 2nd most I have ever had). By Kate's method, I am sitting 84. Monday night, I will either remain ...

The words I, me, my begin to show up with great frequency in the 19th C. Theology increasing stressed “personal relationship” rather than ...

We bought Holland Rusks for my mother-in-law, who was conceived in Holland and spent her early years eating Dutch foods. Holland Rusks are...

The biggest wanker in my department made yet another narcissistic, irrelevant, incomprehensible statement at our last department meeting. M...

I'm clumping the few remaining writings of interest ( Ed: to me, that's who ) from last March. People Of The Lie/ The Great Divorce ...

I sent my film-maker son Victor Davis Hanson's review of 300 . Hanson praises 300 , and the earlier Rome in passing, pithily describing...

Okay, now I'm torqued off. I'm collecting examples from the left side of the Internet that actually has something encouraging or s...

Over at Willisms , there is an interesting graph (as usual. The guy loves those things) * about which income group receives the most back...

I am running a very respectable 89 points in my bracket. But if someone picked the eventual winner and runner up, and no other games correc...

Rush Limbaugh apparently took some flak for making a cynical comment about John Edwards on Friday, and several blogs are reporting he felt v...

I have not commented on the Duke lacrosse team case because I have had nothing to add, and what I would say has been said better by others....

This is not a post about basketball. Part of the "fun" of March Madness is the anticipation and progression of watching your point...

Feel free to add your own. This may become a regular feature. People who say "See you next year" every December 31st. At least n...

An Iraqi car-bomber got through the American checkpoint because there were children in the back seat, lowering suspicions. The bombers ran...

John Edwards' wife has "boney mets," a very bad cancer sign, though not as bad as that would have been even five years ago. W...

Now that you have received permission to use deconstruction, that tool of the infidels, we can play with it a little. My little essay was w...

All beliefs and expressions are influenced by their speakers and cultures, undermining their claim to universal truth. This is nowhere more...