Assistant Village Idiot

I found Bookworm's story touching (HT: neo-neocon ) and it brought back some uncomfortable memories. Telling friends was not near so d...

Men from many foreign cultures, including Hispanic and many African groups, have strong cultural prohibitions against homosexuality and are ...

Medicare Part D is going to be a nightmare. Liberals will blame George Bush, conservatives will blame the idiot Washington bureaucracy. I ...

Full Disclosure: I broke my own rule. I read lots of other folks’ lists and culled some nominations from them. From those nine I am choos...

New Hampshire in 2005 has broken its record for annual precipitaiton, according to the Union Leader. I blame George Bush for this.

An evenhanded discussion of the logical aspects of the abortion issue can be found at Asymetrical Information. Scroll down to November 9. ...

That's me on the left, there. Sadly, it really does look like me.

The actual Worst Americans are people few of us will ever know, serial killers and torturers who seem barely recognizable as human beings. ...

Family Christmas yesterday, and a wonderful time with my two brothers and almost all the attachments. Went to my oldest son's tonight t...

26. Chestnuts 27. It's Beginning 28. Bethlehem 29. Sleigh Bells 30. Rocking 31. Home 32. We Wish 33. I Heard 34. Frosty 35. Jol...

At our party, groups of 6-8 working intermittently over 90 minutes got most of them.  One group got all.  Group interaction seems to spark o...

I wandered aimlessly west and south until I was quite near Oxford Station in London, and caught the sound of piano music on the breeze. Not ...

Years (and years) ago, I was president of the Prometheus Society, one of those tiny up-above-Mensa IQ groups with a supposed cutoff of 164 I...

The suggestion was to decrease our dependence on foreign oil by mandating that all new cars sold after January 1, 2007 get at least 40mpg. A...

Stuff that has been hovering in the background for decades has become a Big Deal this year. All of a sudden folks are really torqued about ...

I don't know how much my little corner (very little corner) of the blogosphere is interested, but with a week to go before Christmas, I ...

Bush Derangement Syndrome is skewered in Mark Steyn's review over at the New Criterion. A sample: Even so, if Brantley’s “wondering di...

France is a glamorous borderline personality disorder, resulting from repeated incestuous victimization by Germany. It explains everything...

If one staff member moves to rescue an Axis II patient, someone else will lean toward punishment to an equal degree. In large groups the m...

Just a bit of fun. It’s hardly news, is it, to report that English food is unappetizing? The civilized world abounds with places where bl...