Assistant Village Idiot

I have joined the 101st Fighting Keyboardists over at Captains Quarters. I haven't found out yet whether I'm allowed to put the lo...

An amateur - very amateur - archaeologist from Bosnia, who believes he has found a pyramid there, thinks the Mayan hieroglyphics reveal this...

It is clear that my tremendous scouting reports to get you through the difficult process of observing the World Cup knowledgeably has been u...

I went visiting liberal blogsites that had some indications of respectability about them. I made an effort to discover sites that were genu...

It sure sucks to be the Zarkman, doesn't it? Too bad he doesn't allow comments.

I don't want to hope that anyone tries to take over a plane, but it would be pretty funny if some terrorist picked the flight that was ...

Big doings in Group C . Holland and Argentina , two of the teams capable of winning the World Cup, are both in this draw. Argentina has a...

I would be a terrible marital counselor myself -- I would save marriages only by virtue of the fact that they agreed their counselor was a c...

Only 50 days to go, or thereabouts. The World Cup has 32 teams which have qualified, divided into 8 groups of 4. Two from each group will m...

My uncle sends me things from some sort of "thinkers group" in No CA. Somone named Harold Helm writes the following, illustrating...

I have a Christian friend who is very much "into prophecy," by which she means equating current events with John's vision of t...

TCSDaily has the second part of the article on the myths surrounding the epidemic of childhood obesity. A good read. I was a skinny kid. ...

From usnewswire.com The National Association of Social Workers released the results of a national study of licensed social workers. What d...

Taken from Buda Hill

In Summer, from the Danube

The altar, late afternoon

From The Danube

Summer Sunrise

And I want you to miss it, too. Pest, from Buda Hill

I got an estimate at a body shop for a dent years ago. The owner of the shop said at one point “Of course they’ll try to jew you down on th...