Assistant Village Idiot

My brother sent this article. It's cute. I like lawmakers with a sense of humor. But the edge, the stereotype, is still there. Repu...

The Reuters story showing that Dutch men who were more optimistic lived longer misses the point. Coincidence is not causality. It could j...

John at Powerline today links to an article at Investors Business Daily, and adds in his own comments about Georges Sada, second in comman...

My uncle sent me the following link and asked for comments. I had either not heard of Bellarmine or had seen reference to him only in passin...

Health care is expensive because now we can do magic. Even in the Middle Ages, magic was expensive. Heck, even in Dungeons and Dragons, mag...

The Gaelic Athletic Association sponsors both hurling and Gaelic football. Scheduled games are listed in the local paper under G.A.A. leagu...

I. People can be extremely sensitive or even badly allergic to individual medications. The side effects that one might show is highly vari...

Now that I’ve read up a little. There are the big hitters, Ortiz, Ramirez, Varitek, and Nixon (if healthy). All one year older. Coco Crisp...

We grant that Round One went heavily to the Bush critics. They pummelled him before he got a glove up. Because it Looks Bad to have (cough...

My Father-in-Law asked me to rate the prospects, and assess the Sox chances this year. Hellifyno. But this site seems to not only have a l...

Mesmerizing HT: No Oil For Pacifists

Having reread Lives Of The Mind by Roger Kimball -- it takes more than one reading for me to absorb material that abstract -- I was struck ...

drj asked, and I hope this answers. I am usually autobiographical only in short bursts, referencing events in Village Idiot life solely for ...

Do my sons know me or what? I was actually reading up on Anglo-Saxon language during the power outage. Leorning-cnihtas is the Old Englis...

David is without power for the next little bit. So he won't be posting. Don't worry- I'm sure he'll read plenty of obscure...

I have a patient being discharged tomorrow. No one is very happy about all this. She will be on a Conditional Discharge, which means she w...

A psychologist friend told me this joke today. I had heard variations on it, but he tells jokes well and I didn't interrupt him. A g...

From "Darwin's Silver Box" by English physician Myles Harris On a planet where computers had yet to be been invented and elect...

The most frequent water-cooler comment I have heard is that whatever would happen to the likes of you and me, that’s what should happen to D...

The trollish and MSM accusation about the blogosphere is that each area develops an echo chamber, an intellectual cul-de-sac, which becomes ...