Assistant Village Idiot

The show is from the 1950s, but meant to recall the musicals of the 20s, especially "The Girl Friend." Linguistic note, that girl ...

Still at 1,000+deaths a day on weekdays, though the full-week average is a little less than that. New cases dropped even more this week. As ...

There is apparently* a T-shirt reading "Misuse of 'literally'** makes me figuratively*** insane." I understand and practic...

I know even less than usual about the NCAA tournament going into this year.  But last year I used the Georgia Tech math department's Bay...

I follow sports less every year, even though it is a great topic of conversation with sons in general, and one in particular. This year I ch...

 From Dr. Boli's Celebrated Magazine . He has more like this. Thank you to commenter James of I Don't Know, But...

Crows are attacking the solar panels in Japan .  With stones. So they have trained falcons to keep away the crows. I'm unsure who I am r...

Even though I expressed doubt about the principle in the comments under So Covid is Over, it is something that is culturally insisted on. An...

The Hippo , the local arts, restaurant, and activities newspaper did an interview with the most recent intern at the SEE Science Center (st...

I wrote Fill 'er Up! on Monday. Has Joe Biden really proved me right this quickly? Without even any intermediaries?

This interesting post over at Grim's is already off the sidebar, so I highlight it for you . We have covered some of this concept and d...

The complaint was about standardised testing, and how relying on it just encourages kids to parrot information back. Because usual suspects....

I heard again for the millionth time someone exulting over the cute thing that some child had said that by claiming that the wonderful thing...

At least, that's what I hear, and what I am likely to be told - again - at several sites on my sidebar when I go over today.  The two pe...

 I love Key and Peele

I brought a slip of paper to the local elections to remind me who I had decided to vote for for Selectmen and School Board. After an evening...

A friend thought I might be interested because two of my sons and one of my daughters-in-law went to Asbury, which is in Wilmore and where t...

Reading the campaign materials for this year's town elections, I came across several where the candidate claimed to have been a school a...

I finally had to go over $4/gallon today.  I might not mind so much if I thought it was because we were no longer buying from the Russians i...

In tracing one's ancestry, one is sometimes working from fairly definitive documents, such as a census record or a wedding record in a t...