Assistant Village Idiot

 

I look on in horror. We had Iraq won but Obama pissed it away.  Now it is Biden's turn, though I can't claim we were winning on this...

The vaccines are not causing worsening fetal health, but Covid itself is causing 20-70% increases in preterm delivery .  British study. It i...

Please note that bsking over at Graph Paper Diaries has a new post after a long hiatus . She had told me earlier in the week it was coming. ...

I consider myself an anti-prescriptivist in English usage, but James located an essay that convinces me immediately that I am at least partl...

More than half over, with weddings and receptions, most of the sons and all the granddaughters being together.  I do have some things to pos...

 I was not a fan when they first came out.  That came later.

Missionaries have to learn that most cultures of the world are shame cultures instead of guilt cultures. Things are wrong according to the s...

I don't think Cuomo is that unusual, but Democrats seem to have concluded that he is likely to become an albatross about their necks. To...

 I don't usually follow it, but one of the headlines suggested this late victory by the American was work checking out.  It was.   I can...

The poop is being thrown freely about whether there is a third spike of C19 occurring. Worldwide, the answer is an unequivocal yes.  In the ...

I have written about Mondo Duplantis in the pole vault, out of Louisiana but jumping for Sweden. Just missed a new world record, and made a...

I comment from time to time on language changes that are occurring in the background even as we live through them.  It is fun to contemplate...

We have a predisposition toward thinking of people in an era as being very similar to each other and different from us. Yet stratification a...

Merritt Ruhlen was my guy.  He not only claimed that all languages sprang eventually from a single initial source, he provided evidence that...

Two months ago Massachusetts was just under 11,500 and it's currently at 11,362, so it has added nothing.. TN is now almost 7k deaths u...

I am frankly tired of repeating myself at a half-dozen sites. I will let this excellent Quillette article out of the UK speak for me this t...

It was almost a week ago that I published my CRT post, so few of you will be going back to check on the comments.  Resident geographer JMSmi...

 It's got to be tough when they say "Write us a song about the Louisiana Purchase."  But Irving Berlin... Thanks to John McWho...