Assistant Village Idiot

The new carnival is up. I didn't contribute this time, for which I am heartily ashamed.

I will likely be returning to this idea of diffuse power over the next few days - or weeks - as it is new and enchanting to me. I have brow...

Jerry Bowyer over at Tech Central Station, has an interesting article abour the survival of Western Culture entitled The Renewal of the West...

Wandering over to comment on some left-leaning blogs, I was puzzled yet again by the accusations of tyranny, of fascism, and of the new pet ...

Via Pajamas Media, the headline suggests that there's a new study about Immaturity In Adults. I read the article. Where's the stu...

or The Great Karnak Knows Without Reading Randall Balmer has an essay in the most recent Chronicle of Higher Education entitled Jesus Is Not...

A psychiatrist I have known for over twenty years sent me this email, his most recent Letter To The Editor. This is an extremely intelligen...

Apparently the terrorists believe that profiling would work if we used it, and are taking steps to counteract that. Well they go to all the ...

From the records of the Old Bailey in London, of a case of petty theft in the 1700’s 606. (L) Edward Cain ; otherwise Can , was indicted for...

It seems there are more WMD in Iraq than there is torture at Gitmo. But somehow they aren't "real" WMD, and humiliation is ...

It is still an idea current on liberal blogs, and apparently in the NCC, Episcopal, and Methodist Church hierarchies, that evangelicals in g...

A local young man was killed in Afghanistan this week. His mother has worked in the public mental health system for many years, and several...

This morning, over on NPR's Car Talk, Ray (I think) had a Great Idea how to solve the energy crisis, at least as it relates to cars. I ...

Michael Ledeen, over at National Review Online speculates that the most-quoted document from the Zarqawi raid is a fake. He doesn't ca...

The cry has gone out that killing Zarqawi is not a big change in the war's fortunes. Okay, how about Zarqawi's death plus 452 raids...

All In The Mind II, the Carnival of the Psychosphere, is up.

I catch about 15 minutes of Rush a day, in 3 five-minute bursts. Yesterday he claimed, as he has before, that the Democrats were being refl...

Another of Wyman's unofficial rules of psychology is to never say you have seen it all. God will humble you the very next day with some...

We all like to categorize things. Categorization is an aid to thought and memory. It is doubtful we could think much at all if we couldn’t...

Eric Umansky (via pajamasmedia ) posts today about reports of mistreatment of prisoners at Gitmo, in the wake of the suicides and suicide a...