Assistant Village Idiot

I come down Rte 13 into Goffstown, where it meets Rte 114 and a major road into Manchester, every evening during rush hour.  I have to make ...

Looks like I will hit 400,000 hits lifetime in the next hour. Thank you.

The first lines of the chorus have always been this family's phrase for the evening hour when small children are no longer intelligent, ...

Ben posted a video "Swedish Lucia For Dummies" that is unafraid to mention that this is a deeply pagan festival.  Distilled cutene...

I almost went with "Tracks of My Tears" instead, until I saw those dresses. That has got to be 1965 or 66. His hair tells me t...

On the basis of what I read, what I hear from mental health clinicians, and more extended conversations with members of my family, I have lo...

There are lists of spiritual gifts - in Romans 12, in 1 Corinthians 12, in Ephesians 4, plus a few other isolated references in 1Cor 7 and 1...

The more important people think the meeting is, the longer the rituals before any actual work gets done or information given.  The audience ...

I have a lengthy, meandering post on the subject - I think I will trash it. Central point:  If you think there's a 1% chance Christian...

There's a clever little internet usage that I noticed popping up over a year ago.  Perhaps it is older and I didn't notice.  It is a...

Steve Sailer reprised the 1977 issue of National Lampoon's JFK Fifth Inaugural Issue and has come back to that general theme at least t...

There is a quote attributed to Asimov The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eurek...

I come from an era in which the word was not used in any context, even when quoting someone.   It is still a word whose full spelling is...

A church that shall remain unnamed but is deeply connected to one of my sons is having a lot of discussions about hospitality and being welc...

I drove by a church I used to go to, and my resentments of how things had all ended in that last year sprang to mind.  We went there for ten...

A lot of folks have written more thoroughly and wisely about the early years of MNF and why they were successful. Still, I think they overlo...

About once a month I check my stats and see by what routes people are coming to this site.  Most of it are things the regulars could predict...

Texan99 has a remarkable story over at Grim's Hall about g oing to a new doctor as a self-pay client. We usually just grumble and pu...

Tom Paxton, though he was a good performer in his own right, is remembered mostly for covers that other folk musicians did of his songs. Eve...